Greek and Roman military manuals: genre and history
In: Routledge monographs in classical studies
Introduction: The Ancient Military Treatise, Genre, and History; James T. Chlup and Conor Whately 1. Military Manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice: Origins, Scholarship, Genre, Audience, and History; Conor Whately 2. The Limited Source Value of Works of Military Literature; Hans Michael Schellenberg 3. The Blind Leading the Blind? Civilian Writers and Audiences of Military Manuals in the Roman World; Nadya Williams 4. Homeric Taktika; Nicholas Sekunda 5. Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the Good Siege: A Case-Study of Demetrius at Rhodes; Graham Wrightson 6. Mercenaries and Moral Concerns; Aaron L. Beek 7. Xenophon's On Horsemanship : the Equestrian Military Manual; Lucy Felmingham-Cockburn 8. Refighting Cunaxa: Xenophon's Education of Cyrus as a Manual on Military Leadership; Jeffrey Rop 9. The Lost Tactica of Lucius Papirius Paetus; Murray Dahm 10. Defeat as Stratagem: Frontinus on Cannae; James T. Chlup 11. Vegetius' Regulae bellorum generales; Jonathan Warner 12. Vegetius' Naval Appendix and the Battle of the Hellespont (324 CE); Craig H. Caldwell 13. Justinian's Warfare as Role Model for Byzantine Warfare? The Evidence of the Military Manuals; Clemens Koehn 14. 'God has sent the thunder': Ideological Distinctives of Middle Byzantine Military Manuals; Meredith L.D. Riedel Epilogue: Is War an Art? The Past, Present, and Future of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Military Literature; Immacolata Eramo