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Greek and Roman Military Manuals : Genre and History
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, au...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Taylor & Francis Group
, 2020
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| Series: | Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6267352 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (309 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429813696 |
