Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars by Whately, Conor

Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004310360)

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Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars by Whately, Conor

Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars

$189.00
Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars by Whately, Conor

Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars

$189.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars, Whately reads Procopius' descriptions of combat through the lens of didacticism, arguing that one of Procopius' intentions was to construct those accounts not only so that they might be entertaining to his audience, but also so that they might provide real value to his readership, which was comprised, in part, of the empire's military command. In the course of this analysis we discover that the varied battles and sieges that Procopius describes are not generic; rather, they have been crafted to reflect the nature of combat - as understood by Procopius - on the three fronts of Justinian's wars, the frontier with Persia, Vandal north Africa, and Gothic Italy.

Author: Conor Whately
ISBN-10: 9004310363
ISBN-13: 9789004310360
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2015
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.90d
By Conor Whately
By Conor Whately
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Conor Whately, Ph.D. (2009, Warwick), is an assistant professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. He has published widely on Roman military history and late antique historiography, including a monograph (forthcoming) on the Roman army in Moesia.

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