Aineias the Tactician How to Survive Under Siege 2nd Edition by David Whitehead ISBN 9781853996276 1853996270

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ISBN 10:  1853996270

ISBN 13: 9781853996276

Author:  David Whitehead

Aineias Tacticus (mid-fourth century B.C.) is not only the earliest but also the most historically interesting of ancient military writers. Uniquely important, too, as a social commentator, he sheds valuable light on the nature of life and the psychological and strategic preoccupations of a typical Greek city-state at a time dominated by two extraordinarily atypical ones, Athens and Sparta. In Aineiasâ work we see what conditions were like in a city-state obliged to play a minor and much more passive role in the history of its age — not laying siege like the big players but suffering it. His practical recommendations derive clearly from accumulated personal experience in the first place; but at the same time he also draws copious illustrative material from both Herodotus and Thucydides.

Table of contents: 

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The Passive Perspective

2. The Work and Its Author

3. Form and Content

4. Invasion and Siege

5. Treachery, Unanimity, and the Survival of the Polis

Genre and Readership
Divergences from the Budé Text
Translation
Commentary
Addenda
Index

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