Military Leadership from Ancient Greece to Byzantium : : The Art of Generalship /

Military Leadership from Ancient Greece to Byzantium : : The Art of Generalship / / ed. by Shaun Tougher.

Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine worldsAddresses a neglected aspect in the study of ancient warfareAnalyses views generated in different ancient cultures about the theory and practice of generalshipBrings together the latest research on generals...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Crosby, Daniel,
Evans, Richard,
Graff, David A,
Krallis, Dimitris,
Kucewicz, Cezary,
MacDonald, Eve,
Marre, Martine de,
McAuley, Alex,
Nolan, David,
Potter, David,
Rance, Philip,
Rockwell, Nicholas,
Stewart, Michael,
Taylor, Michael,
Tougher, Shaun,
Whately, Conor,
HerausgeberIn:
Tougher, Shaun,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Kings, Tyrants and Bandy-Legged Men: Generalship in Archaic Greece
  • 2 Commemorating Thermopylae: The andreia of Glorious Defeat as a Literary Construct
  • 3 Plato on Military and Political Leadership
  • 4 Reconstructing Early Seleucid Generalship, 301–222 bc
  • 5 Generalship and Knowledge in the Middle Roman Republic
  • 6 Command Assessment in the Bellum Gallicum: Caesar and Fortuna
  • 7 Remembering P. Quinctilius Varus: Opposing Perspectives on the Memory and Memorialisation of the Failed General in the Annales of Tacitus
  • 8 Decius and the Battle near Abritus
  • 9 Ammianus and the Heroic Mode of Generalship in the Fourth Century ad
  • 10 The Fine Line between Courage and Fear in the Vandal War
  • 11 The Generalship of John Troglita: Art in Artifice
  • 12 The Best of Men: Cross-Cultural Command in the 630s ad
  • 13 Tian Yue Marshals His Tropes: Public Persuasion and the Character of Military Leadership in Late Tang China
  • 14 The Ideal of the Roman General in Byzantium: The Reception of Onasander’s Strategikos in Byzantine Military Literature
  • 15 Generalship and Gender in Byzantium: Non‑Campaigning Emperors and Eunuch Generals in the Age of the Macedonian Dynasty
  • 16 The Politics of War: Virtue, Tyche, Persuasion and the Byzantine General
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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