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Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus

Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus

Pretzler, Maria
Barley, Nick

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004223517
ISBN13: 9789004223516
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 12 2017
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias' (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual trends. We offer an introduction to Aineias and his work, and then discuss the work's historical and intellectual context, his qualities as a writer, and aspects of his work as a historical source for the Greek polis of the fourth century BC. Several chapters discuss Aineias' approach to warfare, specifically light infantry, mercenaries, naval operations, fortifications and technology. Finally, we include a lengthy study of the reception of ancient military treatises, specifically Aineias' Poliorketika, in the Byzantine period.

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