Brill's companion to Aineias Tacticus / / edited by Maria Pretzler, Nick Barley.
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 t...
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Superior document: | Brill's Companions in Classical Studies, |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's companions in classical studies.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (402 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps, photographs. |
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Other title: | Front Matter -- Introduction / ‘The Other Aineias’ / Aineias the Author: Who, Where and When? / Aineias Tacticus in His Intellectual Context / Aineias and History: The Purpose and Context of Historical Narrative in the Poliorketika / Creating Koine: Aineias Tacticus in the History of the Greek Language / Writing and Other Forms of Communication in Aineias’ Poliorketika / The Polis Falling Apart: Aineias Tacticus and Stasis / Greek Poleis and Warfare in the Fourth Century BC: Aineias’ Poliorketika / Light Infantry and Leadership in Aineias / Mercenaries in Aineias Tacticus / Raiders from the Sea: The Maritime Context of the Poliorketika / Notes from Home: A Perspective on Fourth-century Defence from Arkadian Stymphalos / Technology in Aineias Tacticus: Simple and Complex / The Reception of Aineias’ Poliorketika in Byzantine Military Literature / Indexes. |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9004352856 |
ISSN: | 1872-3357 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Maria Pretzler, Nick Barley. |