[publicclassics] Aelianus' Tactica

[Kai Brodersen]

Which tactics promises success? How can the Romans defeat the Parthians, 
the successors to the Persians? By applying the same tactics as 
Alexander the Great against the Persians! This, in any case, is the 
advice of Ailianos ("Aelianus Tacticus") to the Roman emperor Traja in 
his work "Tactica", which summarizes the contemporary knowledge of 
ancient tactics.

Ailianos' book is not only an important source for ancient military 
history, but has also decisively influenced the military reforms in the 
early modern era. The most comprehensive book on the question of the 
organization and the use of the army preserved from antiquity is now 
available in a fresh critical edition, with a new (German) tranlation.


Kai Brodersen:
Ailianos, Antike Taktiken.
Wiesbaden: Marix  2017

160 pp., hardcoverISBN 978-3-7374-1071-7
15 Euro

http://www.verlagshaus-roemerweg.de/Marix_Verlag/Ailianos-Kai_Brodersen_(%C3%9Cbers.-Hrsg.)-Antike_Taktiken-Taktika-EAN:9783737410717.html

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