Greek and Roman Military Manuals : Genre and History (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Ancient Military Treatise, Genre, and HistoryJames T. Chlup and Conor Whately 1. Military Manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice: Origins, Scholarship, Genre, Audience, and HistoryConor Whately 2. The Limited Source Value of Works of Military LiteratureHans Michael Schellenberg 3. The Blind Leading the Blind? Civilian Writers and Audiences of Military Manuals in the Roman WorldNadya Williams 4. Homeric TaktikaNicholas Sekunda 5. Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the Good Siege: A Case-Study of Demetrius at RhodesGraham Wrightson 6. Mercenaries and Moral ConcernsAaron L. Beek 7. Xenophon’s On Horsemanship: the Equestrian Military ManualLucy Felmingham-Cockburn 8. Refighting Cunaxa: Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus as a Manual on Military LeadershipJeffrey Rop 9. The Lost Tactica of Lucius Papirius PaetusMurray Dahm 10. Defeat as Stratagem: Frontinus on CannaeJames T. Chlup 11. Vegetius’ Regulae bellorum generalesJonathan H. 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 ManualsClemens Koehn 14. "God has sent the thunder": Ideological Distinctives of Middle Byzantine Military ManualsMeredith L. D. Riedel Epilogue: Is War an Art? The Past, Present, and Future of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Military LiteratureImmacolata Eramo