Victor Davis Hanson is a Classics scholar and sixth-generation grape farmer from Selma, California. The interesting combination of these two areas of expertise has produced major changes in the study of Greek society and how warfare and agriculture influenced it. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece is an unrivaled study of the hoplite experience. Written in a style much like John Keegan's, Hanson vividly describes the sights and sounds of the classical battlefield. A number of Hanson's other works explore the many questions surrounding war and agriculture in ancient Greece: the season when battles were fought and why, whether or not vineyards and olive trees were actually "devastated" by invading armies, and if they were not, what Greek warfare really for.