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Nothing is known about his life, except that he was born in 4th century BC.
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Siege Defense
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According to Eliano, the Strategist and Polybius, he wrote several treatises (Hypomnemata) on the subject. The only existing, Polioretic or Tactical Commentary on how to defend oneself from the sieges (in ancient Greek: ???? ??? ??? ??? ??????????????? ???????), deals with the best methods to defend a fortified city. It is the first surviving treatise on military tactics of Western literature. The chapter LII of Apparatus Bellicus (also called Késtoi) by Júlio Africano, contains a Byzantine compilation of unknown date from the book of Aeneas.
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Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library, No. 156)
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Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against siege. From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BCE who served in the Aegean and in Asia Minor and composed the work from direct knowledge and from oral and some literary tradition, possibly in 3576 BCE. It is devoted entirely to defence of fortified places and deals specially with use of defending troops; defensive positions; morale; resistance to attacks and to actual assault; guards; obviation of treachery and revolution; and other subjects. Asclepiodotus, philosopher and pupil of the Stoic Posidonius, wrote a rather dry but ordered work on Tactics as if a subject of the lecture room, based not on personal experience but on earlier manuals. His main subjects were the branches of a military force; infantry; cavalry; chariots; elephants; arms; maneuvers; military evolutions; marching formation. The work ends with words of command. Onasander (Onasandros), a Platonic philosopher, dedicated his work "The General" to the Roman Veranius, who was a consul in 49 CE. The work deals in plain style with the sort of morals and social and military qualities and attitudes expected of a virtuous and militarily successful general. It is also concerned with such matters as his choice of staff; attitude to war; religious duties; military formations; conduct in allied and hostile lands; difficult terrains; camps; drill; spies; guards; deserters; battle formations and maneuvers; and other matters, ending with conduct after victory.
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Aeneae Commentarius Poliorceticus (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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Excerpt from Aeneae Commentarius Poliorceticus Aeneae Commentarìu5 poîìorcetìcus; recensuìlb' 'arnoldus Hug. Lìpsìae, in aedì'bus b.g.teubnerì, 18740 tà. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Aeneas Tacticus
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He was one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war and is credited as the first author to provide a complete guide to securing military communications. Polybius described his design for a hydraulic semaphore system.
According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, 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, 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 to have been a contemporary of Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (Hellenica, vii. 3) mentions as fighting at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC).
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Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library, No. 156)
( Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of ...)
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Aeneae Commentarius Poliorceticus (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
(Excerpt from Aeneae Commentarius Poliorceticus Aeneae Co...)
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Siege Defense
(According to Eliano, the Strategist and Polybius, he wrot...)
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Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library, No. 156)
