Recently I've been collecting some out of print Peter Connolly books, mainly because they're all beautifully illustrated and there is plenty of painting inspiration in each one of them. I've had well thumbed copies of Greece and Rome at War and The Ancient Greece of Odysseus for ages. Greece and Rome at War is a classic despite his suggestion of a pike armed Liby-Phoenician phalanx (p.148). See Duncan Head's Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars (p.144), as to why this isn't the case! Peter Connolly's other books are written for children but are still fun and informative to read as an adult. The Ancient Greece of Odysseus has the best illustrations of the Trojan War and won a Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award. All of these books can be purchased from second hand book sellers on Abebooks for not much at all.
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