How to survive under siege
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How to survive under siege
（Classical studies series）
Bristol Classical, 2001
2nd ed
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Aineias the Tactician : a commentary
Aineias the Tactician : how to survive under siege : a historical commentary, with translation and introduction
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Previous ed.: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
Translated from the Ancient Greek
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Aineias Tacticus (mid-fourth century BC) is not only the earliest but also one of the most historically interesting of ancient military writers. 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 (polis) at a time dominated by two extraordinarily atypical ones, Athens and Sparta. In Aineias' work we see what conditions were like in a polis 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. This edition has the Greekless reader firmly in mind, providing a fresh modern translation of "How to Survive Under Siege", a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and his work, and a full historical commentary.
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