The Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Their Invention of Western Military Culture

We are moving, at varying speeds, into a new millennium. Will the ancient Greeks go with us, or should they? If the four authors whose work is under review here have their way, we shall have no choice but to take them. They are part of our mental furniture, our cultural baggage. Alternatively, they are the rock on which the painfully constructed edifice of our bimillennial experience ultimately rests. But which Greeks is it, precisely, whom we should look back to or rediscover as foundational, and why? Or perhaps, rather, whose Greeks? since we all create the ancestors of our dreams.