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How to Survive Under Siege (Paperback, New edition)
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How to Survive Under Siege (Paperback, New edition)
Series: BCP Classical Studies S.
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Aineias Tacticus (mid-fourth century BC) is not only the earliest
but also one of the most historically interesting of ancient
military writers. Important, too, as a social commentator, he sheds
valuable light on the nature of life and the psychological and
strategic preoccupations of a typical Greek city-state (polis) at a
time dominated by two extraordinarily atypical ones, Athens and
Sparta. In Aineias' work we see what conditions were like in a
polis obliged to play a minor and much more passive role in the
history of its age - not laying siege like the big players but
suffering it. His practical recommendations derive clearly from
accumulated personal experience in the first place; but at the same
time he also draws copious illustrative material from both
Herodotus and Thucydides. This edition has the Greekless reader
firmly in mind, providing a fresh modern translation of "How to
Survive Under Siege", a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and
his work, and a full historical commentary.
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