Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
	List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
	1 - Kings, Tyrants and Bandy-Legged Men: Generalship in Archaic Greece
	2 - Commemorating Thermopylae: The andreia of Glorious Defeat as a Literary Construct
	3 - Plato on Military and Political Leadership
	4 - Reconstructing Early Seleucid Generalship, 301–222 BC
	5 - Generalship and Knowledge in the Middle Roman Republic
	6 - Command Assessment in the Bellum Gallicum: Caesar and Fortuna
	7 - Remembering P. Quinctilius Varus: Opposing Perspectives on the Memory and Memorialisation of the Failed General in the Annales of Tacitus
	8 - Decius and the Battle near Abritus
	9 - Ammianus and the Heroic Mode of Generalship in the Fourth Century AD
	10 - The Fine Line between Courage and Fear in the Vandal War
	11 - The Generalship of John Troglita: Art in Artifice
	12 - The Best of Men: Cross-Cultural Command in the 630s AD
	13 - Tian Yue Marshals His Tropes: Public Persuasion and the Character of Military Leadership in Late Tang China
	14 - The Ideal of the Roman General in Byzantium: The Reception of Onasander’s Strategikos in Byzantine Military Literature
	15 - Generalship and Gender in Byzantium: Non-Campaigning Emperors and Eunuch Generals in the Age of the Macedonian Dynasty
	16 - The Politics of War: Virtue, Tyche, Persuasion and the Byzantine General
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index