Greek taktika
Subtitle: ancient military writing and its heritage : proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Taktika held at the University of Torun, 7-11 April 2005
By: Philip Rance; Nicholas Sekunda
Series: Akanthina -- no. 13; Monograph series Akanthina -- 13
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Gdańsk : Published by the Foundation for the Development of University of Gdańsk for the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Gdańsk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9788375312423
Subjects: Ancient Military history; Congresses
Other titles: Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Taktika held at the University of Torun, 7-11 April 2005
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgements. -- Introduction / -- Philip Rance; title: Early Greek strategic and tactical teaching and literature  -- Burkhard Meissner; title: Reflections on the military views of the 'military writer' Aeneas Tacticus  -- Hans Michael Schellenberg; title: Tactical issues in Aeneas 'Tacticus'  -- Bodgan Burliga; title: The classification of Greco-Macedonian cavalry in ancient taktika and in modern literature  -- Alexander Nefedkin; title: Cavalry organisation in the Taktika : the Tarantimarchia  -- Nicholas Sekunda; title: Asclepiodotus' [tois ne sōmasin epivrithontes] (Tactica 5.2) and Polybius' [tō ton sōmatos varei] (18.30.1-4)  -- Bogdan Burliga; title: A short bibliographical note on the Arabic translation of Aelian's Tactica theoria  -- Hans Michael Schellenberg; title: Polyaenus and the creation of Hellenistic monarchy  -- Jacek Rzepka; title: Alexnader at Tempe : Polyaenus, Strategemata 4.3.23  -- Sławomir Sprawski; title: The rank insignia of the officers of the Macedonian phalanx : the lessons of iconography and an indirect reference in Vegetius  -- Pierre O. Juhel; title: The javelins used by the Roman cavalry of the early principate in archaeological contexts and written sources  -- Radosław A. Gawroński; title: The principles of ars tactica : Roman military theory and practice in Arrian's Acies contra Alanos  -- Wojciech Brillowski; title: Maurice's Strategicon and 'the ancients' : the Late Antique reception of Aelian and Arrian  -- Philip Rance; title: The practical use of classical texts for modern war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries  -- Keith Roberts; title: The influence of classical military texts in early modern Poland : a survey -- Richard Brzezinski.