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An edition of Greek taktika (2017)

Greek taktika

ancient military writing and its heritage : proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Taktika held at the University of Torun, 7-11 April 2005

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Following an extensive introduction by Philip Rance, which surveys the historical development of ancient Greek military writing and the evolution of modern scholarship on this literary tradition, this book presents 15 papers given at a conference devoted to Greek taktika, a broad genre of handbooks concerning tactics, generalship and the conduct of war. Collectively the contributors address the practical utility of these texts in ancient warfare, their literary, military and cultural contexts in Antiquity, and their diverse uses as historical sources within the wider sphere of ancient military history. The final three papers selectively examine the reception of ancient Greek tactical writing in Byzantium and the Early Modern period in Western and Eastern Europe.

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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements. -- Introduction / -- Philip Rance
Early Greek strategic and tactical teaching and literature -- Burkhard Meissner
Reflections on the military views of the 'military writer' Aeneas Tacticus -- Hans Michael Schellenberg
Tactical issues in Aeneas 'Tacticus' -- Bodgan Burliga
The classification of Greco-Macedonian cavalry in ancient taktika and in modern literature -- Alexander Nefedkin
Cavalry organisation in the Taktika : the Tarantimarchia -- Nicholas Sekunda
Asclepiodotus' [tois ne sōmasin epivrithontes] (Tactica 5.2) and Polybius' [tō ton sōmatos varei] (18.30.1-4) -- Bogdan Burliga
A short bibliographical note on the Arabic translation of Aelian's Tactica theoria -- Hans Michael Schellenberg
Polyaenus and the creation of Hellenistic monarchy -- Jacek Rzepka
Alexnader at Tempe : Polyaenus, Strategemata 4.3.23 -- Sławomir Sprawski
The rank insignia of the officers of the Macedonian phalanx : the lessons of iconography and an indirect reference in Vegetius -- Pierre O. Juhel
The javelins used by the Roman cavalry of the early principate in archaeological contexts and written sources -- Radosław A. Gawroński
The principles of ars tactica : Roman military theory and practice in Arrian's Acies contra Alanos -- Wojciech Brillowski
Maurice's Strategicon and 'the ancients' : the Late Antique reception of Aelian and Arrian -- Philip Rance
The practical use of classical texts for modern war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Keith Roberts
The influence of classical military texts in early modern Poland : a survey -- Richard Brzezinski.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Gdańsk : Published by the Foundation for the Development of University of Gdańsk for the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Gdańsk
Series
Akanthina -- no. 13, Monograph series Akanthina -- 13
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Taktika held at the University of Torun, 7-11 April 2005

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Dewey Decimal Class
930
Library of Congress
DF89 .G74 2017

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308 pages
Number of pages
308

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OL60446891M
ISBN 10
8375312428
ISBN 13
9788375312423
OCLC/WorldCat
1019620756

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OL44215908W

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