Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against siege. From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BCE who served in the Aegean and in Asia Minor and composed the work from direct knowledge and from oral and some literary tradition, possibly in 357-6 BCE. It is devoted entirely to defence of fortified places and deals specially with use of defending troops; defensive positions; morale; resistance to attacks and to actual assault; guards; obviation of treachery and revolution; and other subjects. Asclepiodotus, philosopher and pupil of the Stoic Posidonius, wrote a rather dry but ordered work on Tactics as if a subject of the lecture room, based not on personal experience but on earlier manuals. His main subjects were the branches of a military force; infantry; cavalry; chariots; elephants; arms; maneuvers; military evolutions; marching formation. The work ends with words of command. Onasander (Onasandros), a Platonic philosopher, dedicated his work "The General" to the Roman Veranius, who was a consul in 49 CE. The work deals in plain style with the sort of morals and social and military qualities and attitudes expected of a virtuous and militarily successful general. It is also concerned with such matters as his choice of staff; attitude to war; religious duties; military formations; conduct in allied and hostile lands; difficult terrains; camps; drill; spies; guards; deserters; battle formations and maneuvers; and other matters, ending with conduct after victory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against siege. From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BCE who served in the Aegean and in Asia Minor and composed the work from direct knowledge and from oral and some literary tradition, possibly in 357-6 BCE. It is devoted entirely to defence of fortified places and deals specially with use of defending troops; defensive positions; morale; resistance to attacks and to actual assault; guards; obviation of treachery and revolution; and other subjects. Asclepiodotus, philosopher and pupil of the Stoic Posidonius, wrote a rather dry but ordered work on Tactics as if a subject of the lecture room, based not on personal experience but on earlier manuals. His main subjects were the branches of a military force; infantry; cavalry; chariots; elephants; arms; maneuvers; military evolutions; marching formation. The work ends with words of command. Onasander (Onasandros), a Platonic philosopher, dedicated his work "The General" to the Roman Veranius, who was a consul in 49 CE. The work deals in plain style with the sort of morals and social and military qualities and attitudes expected of a virtuous and militarily successful general. It is also concerned with such matters as his choice of staff; attitude to war; religious duties; military formations; conduct in allied and hostile lands; difficult terrains; camps; drill; spies; guards; deserters; battle formations and maneuvers; and other matters, ending with conduct after victory
Aeneas Tacticus, Asdepiodotus, and Onasander; with English translation by members of the Illinois Greek club
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Aeneas Tacticus
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Aineias the Tactician
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
With the Greekless reader firmly in mind, this text provides a fresh modern translation of Aineias Tacitus' "How to Survive Under Siege", a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and his work, and a full historical commentary.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
With the Greekless reader firmly in mind, this text provides a fresh modern translation of Aineias Tacitus' "How to Survive Under Siege", a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and his work, and a full historical commentary.
Aeneas Tacticus. Asclepiodotus. Onasander. With an English Translation by Members of the Illinois Greek Club
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : el
Pages : 531
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : el
Pages : 531
Book Description
Aeneas Tacticus. Asclepiodotus. Onasander
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Works of Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus and Onasander
Author: Aeneas Tacticus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Aeneas on Siegecraft
Author: Aeneas (Tacticus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx brings together emerging and established scholars to build on the new consensus of multiform Greek warfare, on and off the battlefield, beyond the usual chronological, geographical, and operational boundaries.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx brings together emerging and established scholars to build on the new consensus of multiform Greek warfare, on and off the battlefield, beyond the usual chronological, geographical, and operational boundaries.