Aeneas Tacticus
Aeneas Tacticus,probably the Stymphalian general of the Arcadian League in 367 BC (Xenophon Hellenica 7. 3. 1); anyway the earliest (-surviving) and most historically interesting of the ancient military writers (tactici). Of several treatises only his Siegecraft (Poliorcetica) is extant, internally datable to the mid-4th cent. via the clustering of contemporary illustrations of its precepts (and linguistically important for its embryo form of the koinē, i.e. standard Greek). Concerned more with defence against than prosecution of siege-warfare, it offers unique insights into the stresses of life in small communities with warfare and revolution constantly threatening.
David Whitehead
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