,
,Greek and Roman Military Manuals
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 serve to
reveal 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.
James T. Chlup is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University
of Manitoba, Canada.
Conor Whately is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of
Winnipeg, Canada.
, Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Titles include
Un-Roman Sex
Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers,
1st Edition
Edited by Tatiana Ivleva and Rob Collins
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition
The Muses in America
Robert J. Rabel
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg
Edited by Jonathan Price and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion
Edited by Julia Kindt
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Edited by Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
Edited by Krzysztof Nawotka
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of
Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy
Nicola Spanu
,Greek and Roman Military Manuals
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 serve to
reveal 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.
James T. Chlup is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University
of Manitoba, Canada.
Conor Whately is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of
Winnipeg, Canada.
, Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Titles include
Un-Roman Sex
Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers,
1st Edition
Edited by Tatiana Ivleva and Rob Collins
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition
The Muses in America
Robert J. Rabel
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg
Edited by Jonathan Price and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion
Edited by Julia Kindt
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Edited by Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
Edited by Krzysztof Nawotka
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of
Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy
Nicola Spanu
