Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean

Lynne A. Kvapil, PhD (2012), University of Cincinnati, is an associate professor of Classics at Butler University. She has published on terraced landscapes, farming, ceramic production, and mortuary archaeology of the Mycenaean of Late Bronze Age Greece. Kim Shelton, Ph.D. (1993), is Director of the Nemea Center at UC Berkeley. She directs excavations in Nemea and Mycenae. Her research in ceramics, ritual and religion, and the political economy of the prehistoric Aegean is published in monographs and articles.Contributors are: Natalie Abell, Tomáš Alušík, Trevor Bryce, Ioannis Georganas, Margaretha Kramer-Hajos, Lynne A. Kvapil, Shannon Lafayette Hogue, Barry Molloy, Jesse Obert, Stephen O’Brien, Angelos Papadopoulos, Cynthia Shelmerdine, Kim Shelton

"This handsomely produced volume fulfills the promise of its title: it accompanies its intended reader, equipped with a basic knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean, into an exploration of various aspects of a topic often fraught with easy generalizations and stereotypical representations. As such, it is a highly welcome and well-prepared publication that was eagerly anticipated. (...) [It] will remain a standard introduction to almost all facets of the topic to a broader readership, facilitating the integration of Aegean prehistory to comparative studies and broad syntheses on warfare, ancient or diachronic."Vassilis Petrakis in BMCR 2025.06.08 "Brill’s Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean is part of Brill’s ambitious series Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, the volumes of which are aimed at both specialists and nonspecialists and are pitched at an above-introductory level. (...) The effective structure of the chapters and the clear and jargon-free writing throughout, though technical and detailed in places, make the content accessible. (...) It frequently goes beyond warfare into other aspects of the archaeology and society of the Bronze Age Aegean. (...) Overall, the volume is up-to-date, authoritative, and stimulating. It will be the new starting point for anyone with a serious interest in the subject of warfare in the Aegean from the Early Bronze Age to the postpalatial 12th century BCE and will also be valuable to those seeking to explore the Aegean side of ancient warfare for comparative purposes." Guy D. Middleton in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 129, No. 4, October 2025