Author : Philip R Rance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138084506
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (845 download)
Book Synopsis The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice by : Philip R Rance
Download or read book The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice written by Philip R Rance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and the subsequent Byzantine military corpus, which it profoundly influenced. Of unprecedented size and scope, the Strategikon discusses every aspect of contemporary land warfare, and includes ethnographic excursuses on the late Roman Empire's varied enemies. It is a work of outstanding utility, whose author was able to combine, in a deliberately vernacular Greek, the precepts of earlier military texts with a practical military knowledge. Volume I is a new English translation and detailed commentary on the work, incorporating the vast amount of research recently conducted on this period. Volume II provides studies on the text's structure, composition, language, sources and literary antecedents.