Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Abbreviations xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Kings, Tyrants and Bandy-Legged Men: Generalship in Archaic Greece 6
8. 2 Commemorating Thermopylae: The andreia of Glorious Defeat as a Literary Construct 36
9. 3 Plato on Military and Political Leadership 52
10. 4 Reconstructing Early Seleucid Generalship, 301–222 bc 67
11. 5 Generalship and Knowledge in the Middle Roman Republic 86
12. 6 Command Assessment in the Bellum Gallicum: Caesar and Fortuna 98
13. 7 Remembering P. Quinctilius Varus: Opposing Perspectives on the Memory and Memorialisation of the Failed General in the Annales of Tacitus 116
14. 8 Decius and the Battle near Abritus 139
15. 9 Ammianus and the Heroic Mode of Generalship in the Fourth Century ad 151
16. 10 The Fine Line between Courage and Fear in the Vandal War 164
17. 11 The Generalship of John Troglita: Art in Artifice 187
18. 12 The Best of Men: Cross-Cultural Command in the 630s ad 206
19. 13 Tian Yue Marshals His Tropes: Public Persuasion and the Character of Military Leadership in Late Tang China 225
20. 14 The Ideal of the Roman General in Byzantium: The Reception of Onasander’s Strategikos in Byzantine Military Literature 242
21. 15 Generalship and Gender in Byzantium: Non‑Campaigning Emperors and Eunuch Generals in the Age of the Macedonian Dynasty 264
22. 16 The Politics of War: Virtue, Tyche, Persuasion and the Byzantine General 284
23. Epilogue 306
24. Bibliography 307
25. Index 351