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AENEAS TACTICUS (4th century B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 257 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AENEAS TACTICUS (4th See also:century B.C.)  , one of the earliest See also:Greek writers on the See also:art of See also:war . According to Aelianus Tacticus and See also:Polybius, he wrote a number of See also:treatises (`T7royinjua-ra) on the subject; the only one extant deals with the best methods of defending a fortified See also:city . An See also:epitome of the whole was made by See also:Cineas, See also:minister of See also:Pyrrhus, See also:king of See also:Epirus . The See also:work is chiefly valuable as containing a large number of See also:historical illustrations . See also:Aeneas was considered by See also:Casaubon to have been a contemporary of See also:Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian See also:general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (Hellenica, vii . 3) mentions as fighting at the See also:battle of Mantinea (362 B.c.) . See also:Editions in I . Casaubon's (1619), See also:Gronovius' (167o) and See also:Ernesti's (1763) editions of Polybius; also separately, with notes, by J . C . See also:Orelli (See also:Leipzig, 1818) . Other texts are those of W . See also:Rustow and H .

Kochly (Griechische Kriegsschri tsteller, vol. i . Leipzig, 1853) and A . See also:

Hug, Prolegomena Critica ¢ Aeneae . editionem (See also:Zurich . University, 1874) . See also See also:Count See also:Beausobre, Commentaires sur la defense See also:des places d'Aeneas (See also:Amsterdam, 1757); A . Hug, Aeneas von Stymphalos (Zurich, 1877) ; C . C . See also:Lange, De Aeneae commentario poliorcetico (See also:Berlin, 1879) ; M . H . See also:Meyer, Observationes in Aeneam Tacticum (See also:Halle, 1835) ; See also:Haase, in Jahns Jahrbuch, 1835, xiv . 1; Max Jahns, Gesch. der Kriegswissenschafien, i. pp . 26-28 (See also:Munich, 1889) ; Ad .

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Bauer, in Zeitschrift See also:fur allg . Geschichte, &c., 1886, i.; T . H . See also:Williams in See also:American See also:Journal of See also:Philology, See also:xxv . 4; E . Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie (See also:Stuttgart, 1894) .

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