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The Macedonians were the most proficient example of the adaptation of combined arms in antiquity with Phillip of Macedon II being the skilled crasftman who (inspiring himself on the Persians) notably was able to forge a solid unit of cavalrymen elite and to adapt the infantry for battle in a way in which it was never reached before by the greeks or otherwise. The Macedonians could be considered the "peak"

The main focus of this book is the evolution of "combined arms" in ancient armies ,as in how armies adapted and evolved with each warfare and in response to opponents and technological adaptations how civilization evolve from the basic drills and ways to wage war according to their environments to more complex and complementary forms of tactics and units evolution in order to adapt to the needs of time.

However, this suppreme domiance of chariot warfare would soon face it's counter and be defeated by more organized infantry drills and tactics which would eventually render the chariots a weapon of the past, likewise at the time the usage of horses (in the sense of cavalry) for warfare was very limited and not nearly as impactful compared to what it would rise up to be in the future.

The book analyse the evolution of warfare from the basic ways of fighting and waging war found in the first early civilizations and great millitary powers such as Assyria, Babylon etc in which the prevalence was given to chariot warfare as the strongest and most elite body of warfare in comparative with the greeks in which contrary to the eastern men had a focus on direct and brutal and yet "simple" warfare.

There is a heavy emphasis in early christians writting on attacks and critics against the horrible pratice (in their own terms and views) of sodomy as a male intercourse.

"Effeminate and unjust, evil city, ill-fated above all. Alas, city of the Latin land, unclean in all things, maenad, rejoicing in vipers, as a widow you will sit by the banks, and the river Tiber will weep for you, its consort".

"Neither have they [the righteous] disgraceful desire for another's spouse, or for hateful and repulsive abuse of a male." Sibyllines V.167

This text is notably referenced as a solid evidence that the Bible have serious issues with the pratice of Homosexuality in all it's form and consider it a physical and religious abuse, as harmful spiritually as it is matter of factly.

The book analyse how on the bible there is evidence of "trans people" at the time due to the prohibition of such pratice on how males should never crossdress and how that fact alone is a heavy sin. It also adress how the writtings which founded the bible vilify the pratices of romans and others as heavily ethically wrong (homosexual pratices)

The book seems to take a more or less strongly progressive stance toward social issues regarding sexuality and gender , which I am not sure how to feel about it, but regardless it's surprising.

The book list all the authors who participated in the work (and surprisingly the main contributors have very VERY progressive views and interpretation of the biblical work compared to what I expected)

The book start off by saying that the views on homosexuality in the Bible within scholarly circle have deeply evolved even in the pure theological aspect they start by refering John Boswell the theologian, saying the later work on homosexuality while being extremely questionned on various aspects did brought up some solid points which even today among scholars are meet with agrement.

The book start off with an interesting and pleasing paragraph saying that the issue cannot be merely looked as a theological/biblical study but as a profound and very serious debate involving psychology, sociology, biology and philosophical questions which must take into consideration the fact that we are talking about real people, real humans with real issues.