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ΒΙΒΛΟΣ ΤΑΚΤΙΚΗ Battlefield Tactics in the Greco-Roman World

ΒΙΒΛΟΣ ΤΑΚΤΙΚΗ

Battlefield Tactics in the Greco-Roman World

Georgios C. Karyofyllis · 2011–2026

“Τακτική ἐστιν ἐπιστήμη καθ’ ἥν τις πλῆθος ἀνθρώπων μεθ’ ὅπλων συντάξαι τε καὶ κινῆσαι κατὰ καιρὸν δύναται.”

De re Strategica, 14.1.3

An in-depth analysis of battlefield tactics in the Greco-Roman world as presented in the primary sources. Nineteen chapters, from the terminology of the ranks and the arms they carried to preparation, engagement, the aftermath of battle, numbers and campaigns, cavalry, and the army on the march, each drawn from the ancient and medieval Greek sources, which are quoted in the original in the notes.

763,000 words of text and 777,555 words of notes, in 19,526 notes, which quote the sources 19,522 times.

Open to everyone: chapters 1 and 2, and the index of its 360 sources (248 works and 102 papyri in the lists of 1.2.3, and 10 more that the notes quote). As a member of Virtus Invicta (free) you also read the quotations under each source; the full text is for Enhanced readers, granted by the Lore Master on request.

Contents

  1. 1. Introductionopen
    2 sections
  2. 2. On the Assortment of Men - Terminologyopen
    4 sections
  3. 3. On Arms, Equipment and Tactical Usage thereofenhanced
    12 sections
  4. 4. On Divisions and Subdivisions of the Armyenhanced
    1 section
  5. 5. On the Disposition of Men in the Army, its Formation and Arrangementenhanced
    7 sections
  6. 6. On Military Evolutionsenhanced
    4 sections
  7. 7. On Commandsenhanced
    11 sections
  8. 8. On Preparations for Battleenhanced
    30 sections
  9. 9. On the Engagement of Troopsenhanced
    15 sections
  10. 10. On how to Act after the Engagementenhanced
    8 sections
  11. 11. On Other Aspects of the Engagementenhanced
    10 sections
  12. 12. On Numbers and Campaignsenhanced
    7 sections
  13. 13. Battles Reconstructedenhanced
    69 sections
  14. 14. Cavalry in Battleenhanced
    4 sections
  15. 15. Other Matters concerning Warenhanced
    11 sections
  16. 16. The Army on the March and in the Campenhanced
    12 sections
  17. 17. On Light Troops and Skirmishesenhanced
    6 sections
  18. 18. Indexenhanced
  19. 19. Onomasticon Tacticonenhanced

Sources & bibliography