Greek and Roman Military Manuals

Genre and History
Herausgeber: Chlup, James T; Whately, Conor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Covering most major manual writers, it examines the extent to which such texts reflect the practice of warfare and constitute a genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138335141
• ISBN-10: 1138335142
• Artikelnr.: 59584428

Autorenporträt

James T. Chlup is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Conor Whatley is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ancient Military Treatise, Genre, and History 1.
Military Manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice 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