Greek and Roman Military Manuals : Genre and History
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Chlup, James T.
, [HerausgeberIn]
Whately, Conor , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (309 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| ISBN: | 9780429813696 |
| Parallelausgabe: |
Chlup, James T., Greek and Roman Military Manuals (Print version) | ISSN: 9781138335141 |
| Online-Zugang: |
Available online for registrated users of FID |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on translations
- Introduction: the ancient military treatise, genre, and history
- 1 Military manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice: origins, scholarship, genre, audience, and history
- 2 The limited source value of works of military literature
- 3 The blind leading the blind? Civilian writers and audiences of military manuals in the Roman world
- 4 Homeric Taktika
- 5 Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the good siege: a case-study of Demetrius at Rhodes
- 6 Mercenaries and moral concerns
- 7 Xenophon's On Horsemanship: the equestrian military manual
- 8 Refighting Cunaxa: Xenophon's Education of Cyrus as a manual on military leadership
- 9 The lost Tactica of Lucius Papirius Paetus
- 10 Defeat as stratagem: Frontinus on Cannae
- 11 Vegetius' regulae bellorum generales
- 12 Vegetius' naval appendix and the Battle of the Hellespont (324 CE)
- 13 Justinian's warfare as role model for Byzantine warfare?: the evidence of the military manuals
- 14 'God has sent the thunder': ideological distinctives of middle Byzantine military manuals
- Epilogue: is war an art? The past, present, and future of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine military literature
- Index.
