Greek and Roman Military Manuals : Genre and History

1. Verfasser: Chlup, James T. , [HerausgeberIn]
Weitere Verfasser: Whately, Conor , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge, 2021
Umfang/Format: xi, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Parallelausgabe: Greek and Roman Military Manuals (Online version) | ISSN: 9780429813696
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.