How to survive under siege
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How to survive under siege
（Clarendon ancient history series）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
- : pbk.
- Other Title
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Peri tou pōs chrē poliorkoumenous antechein
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Description
The author, in the mid-fourth century BC, of "How to Survive Under Siege", Aineias the Tactician is not only the earliest but also the most historically interesting of the ancient military writers. The last 20 years have witnessed a growing appreciation of his importance as a social commentator on the nature of life and the strategic and psychological preoccupations in a typical Greek city-state at a time dominated by two extraordinary and untypical ones, Athens and Sparta. In Aineias we see what conditions were like in a "polis" obliged to play the passive role in the history of its age: not laying siege but suffering it. His recommendations on this clearly derive from his own accumulated experience, but he also draws copious illustrative material from other writers including Herodotus and Thucydides. The author provides a comprehensive introduction and a full historical commentary.
Table of Contents
- The passive perspective
- the work and its author
- form and content
- invasion and seige
- treachery, unanimity and the survival of the "polis"
- genre and readership - divergences from the Bude text.
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