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Brill’s Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias’ (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual trends. We offer an introduction to Aineias and his work, and then discuss the work’s historical and intellectual context, his qualities as a writer, and aspects of his work as a historical source for the Greek polis of the fourth century BC. Several chapters discuss Aineias’ approach to warfare, specifically light infantry, mercenaries, naval operations, fortifications and technology. Finally, we include a lengthy study of the reception of ancient military treatises, specifically Aineias’ Poliorketika, in the Byzantine period.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 402
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Publication Date:
12 October 2017
ISBN: 9789004223516
Format: Hardcover
In conclusione, il volume risponde pienamente a quell’esigenza di approfondimento su Enea Tattico che viene messa in evidenza nell’introduzione. L’argomento è affrontato a tutto campo, ed Enea diventa effettivamente il prisma attraverso cui aprire una finestra su di un mondo scarsamente conosciuto, quale quello delle piccole e medie poleis della Greca antica, lontane dai fasti dei maggiori centri urbani, ma pure dotate di una propria vitalità. Alcuni interventi possono risultare più aridi e tecnici di altri, e in alcuni punti l’argomentazione è altamente congetturale, ma nulla di tutto ciò inficia il valore di un volume che, complessivamente, risulta di utile e piacevole lettura anche a chi non si interessi della figura, pure molto interessante, di quell’antico scrittore di cose militari che fu Enea Tattico.
Arturo Mariano Iannace in: Medioevo greco, 18, 2018
Arturo Mariano Iannace in: Medioevo greco, 18, 2018
Maria Pretzler, D.Phil (Oxford, 1999) is Associate Professor in Ancient History at Swansea University. She has published on Pausanias and ancient travel (Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece, Duckworth 2007), Peloponnesian History and the Second Sophistic.
Nick Barley, Ph.d (Swansea, 2013) is a Teacher of Classics and History at King Edward VI College Stourbridge. He has published on warfare in Classical Greece, focusing on the use and development of light infantry.
Contributors are: Nick Barley, Marco Bettalli, Ben Gourley, Robin Lane Fox, Peter Liddel, Maria Pretzler, Philip Rance, Tracey Rihll, Jim Roy, Graham Shipley, Philip de Souza, José Vela Tejada, and David Whitehead.
Nick Barley, Ph.d (Swansea, 2013) is a Teacher of Classics and History at King Edward VI College Stourbridge. He has published on warfare in Classical Greece, focusing on the use and development of light infantry.
Contributors are: Nick Barley, Marco Bettalli, Ben Gourley, Robin Lane Fox, Peter Liddel, Maria Pretzler, Philip Rance, Tracey Rihll, Jim Roy, Graham Shipley, Philip de Souza, José Vela Tejada, and David Whitehead.