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Aeneas Tacticus (; fl. 4th century BC) was one of the earliest 
According to Aelianus Tacticus and
Aeneas Tacticus
(complete text, Greek and English translation)
How to Survive Under Siege
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Aeneas Tacticus (; fl. 4th century BC) was one of the earliest Greek
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writers on the art of war and is credited as the first author to provide a complete guide to securing military communications. Polybius
Polybius (; , ; ) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work , a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264–146 ...
described his design for a hydraulic semaphore system.
According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius
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, he wrote a number of treatises () on the subject. The only extant one, ''How to Survive under Siege'' (, ), deals with the best methods of defending a fortified city. An epitome of the whole was made by Cineas
Cineas () was a man from Thessaly and an important adviser of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pyrrhus. He had a reputation for great wisdom and was a pupil of Demosthenes the orator and was the only man who could be compared in skill with Demosthenes. ...
, minister of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. The work is chiefly valuable as containing a large number of historical illustrations.
Aeneas was considered by Isaac Casaubon
Isaac Casaubon (; ; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar.
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to have been a contemporary of Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; ; 355/354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Ancient Greek mercenaries, Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been ...
and identical with the Arcadian general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (''Hellenica'', vii.3) mentions as fighting at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC).
References
Further reading
*''Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander''. Translated by Illinois Greek Club.Loeb Classical Library
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.
* Whitehead, David. 2002, ''Aineias the Tactician: How to Survive Under Siege''. Second edition (First edition 1990). Bristol Classical Press. .
* Jenkins, Thomas E. 2006. "Epistolary Warfare" in ''Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature. ''Lexington Books. pp. 51–59. .''
* Kai Brodersen: Aineias/Aeneas Tacticus. Poliorketika (Tusculum). Greek and German. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, .
See also Chisholm 1911 for a long list of editions and commentaries.
External links
Aeneas Tacticus
(complete text, Greek and English translation)
How to Survive Under Siege
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