ISBN-13: 9781138335141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 298 str.
ISBN-13: 9781138335141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 298 str.
This volume examines military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Covering most major manual writers, it examines the extent to which such texts reflect the practice of warfare and constitute a genre.