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Greek and Roman Military Manuals - Genre and History (Paperback)
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Greek and Roman Military Manuals - Genre and History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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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 serves to reveals 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.
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