Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History by James T. Chlup & Conor Whately

Author:James T. Chlup & Conor Whately [Chlup, James T. & Whately, Conor]
Format: pdf
Tags: This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Coverage includes most of the major contemporary siege manual writers, including Xenophon, Frontinus, Vegetius, and Maurice. Close examination of these texts serve to reveal the complex ways in which ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines sought to understand better, and impose order upon, the seemingly irrational phenomenon known as war. Providing insight into the multifaceted collection of texts that constituted military manuals, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of warfare and military literature in the classical and Byzantine periods., ancient military manuals, Xenophon's Cyropaedia, greek military manuals, Tenth-Century Eastern Roman Military Manuals, ancient greek cavalry, roman military literature, homer and military manuals, Vegetius, Frontinus' Strategemata, byzantine military manuals, xenophon on the cavalry commander, roman military manuals, Vegetius' Naval Appendix, xenophon on horsemanship, Tactica of L. Papirius Paetus, Homeric Tactika, greek military literature, Xenophon's Hipparchikos, ancient equestrian military manual, 10th century military manuals, Xenophon's Peri Hippikes, xenophon on the art of horsemanship, Vegetius' Regulae bellorum generales, Macedonian infantry commanders, morality in military manuals
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-09-15T17:12:28.708000+00:00


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