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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on translations
Introduction: the ancient military treatise, genre, and history
1 Military manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice: origins, scholarship, genre, audience, and history
2 The limited source value of works of military literature
3 The blind leading the blind? Civilian writers and audiences of military manuals in the Roman world
4 Homeric Taktika
5 Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the good siege: a case-study of Demetrius at Rhodes
6 Mercenaries and moral concerns
7 Xenophon’s On Horsemanship: the equestrian military manual
8 Refighting Cunaxa: Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus as a manual on military leadership
9 The lost Tactica of Lucius Papirius Paetus
10 Defeat as stratagem: Frontinus on Cannae
11 Vegetius’ regulae bellorum generales
12 Vegetius’ naval appendix and the Battle of the Hellespont (324 CE)
13 Justinian’s warfare as role model for Byzantine warfare?: the evidence of the military manuals
14 ‘God has sent the thunder’: ideological distinctives of middle Byzantine military manuals
Epilogue: is war an art? The past, present, and future of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine military literature
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