Strategem

Strategem
Author: Sextus Frontius
Publisher: Winged Hussar Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780988953239

Four hundred years of Roman military strategy in the palm of your hand The choice of these two works – Stratagems and On Military Matters in one volume allows the reader a bookend of Roman military theory and style. Stratagem was written in the first century AD by noted engineer and soldier, Sextus Julius Frontius. Rather than a specific outline of tactics, it is examples of strategies employed by other generals over time that could be, presumably learned by commanders and applied as the situation arose. This is somewhat similar to the style Plutarch uses in describing the lives of the notable Greeks and Romans in his book, Parallel Lives. On Military Matter, on the other hand, was written near the end of the western Empire in the fourth century AD, as a manual of how an army should be organized and used. Little is known about its author, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, beyond this work and another on veterinary medicine.

Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome

Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome
Author: Peter J. Aicher
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780865162716

Aicher has crafted an ideal introduction and a valuable field companion for navigating the Roman aqueducts. Features new maps, schematic drawings, photographs, and reprints of Ashby's line drawings.

Stratagems

Stratagems
Author: Sextus Julius Frontinus
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre: Aqueducts
ISBN:

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
Author: Paul Erdkamp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521896290

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.