Battles and generals : : combat, culture, and didacticism in Procopius' Wars / / by Conor Whately.

• Superior document: History of Warfare, Volume 111
• VerfasserIn: Whately, Conor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; Volume 111.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ Wars, Whately reads Procopius’ descriptions of combat through the lens of didacticism, arguing that one of Procopius’ intentions was to construct those accounts not only so that they might be entertaining to his audience, but al...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 1 The Life of Procopius
• 2 How to Defeat the Persians in Combat
• 3 How to Defeat the Vandals in Combat
• 4 How to Defeat the Goths in Combat
• 5 Book Eight
• 6 Procopius’ Worldview and the Wider Intellectual Context
• Appendix 1: Glossary of Procopian Battles and Sieges
• Appendix 2: Win/Loss Records of the Persian and Roman Armies in the Persian Wars 
• Select Bibliography
• Index.