Battles and generals: combat, culture, and didacticism in Procopius' "Wars"
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
[2016]
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| Schriftenreihe: | History of warfare
volume 111 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | XIII, 276 Seiten 1 Karte |
| ISBN: | 9789004310360 9789004310384 |
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Prologue: The Battle of Callinicum ix
Acknowledgements xii
Note on Translation and Transliteration xiv
Introduction l
1 Premise l
2 A Cultural Approach to Procopian Combat 6
3 History as Literature 8
4 Rhetoric and Truth in Procopius* Wars 13
5 Methodology 20
6 Three Facets of Ancient Combat 22
a Describing Combat in Antiquity 22
b Explaining Combat in Antiquity 25
c Great Man History and Generalship 31
7 Chapter Organization 34
8 The Wider Applicability of Procopian Combat 36
1 The Life of Procopius 38
1 Procopius* Life, Family, and Social Background 38
2 Religious Views 43
3 The Breadth of Procopius* Reading 45
4 Procopius the Rhetor 56
5 Procopius the Philosopher and Engineer 58
6 Procopius Literary Career 61
7 Procopius* Service in the Military and His Sources 64
8 Concluding Thoughts 66
2 How to Defeat the Persians in Combat 68
1 The Persian Wars 69
2 Describing Combat 70
a Programmatic Combat 70
b Foreshadowing and the Exhortations of Generals
c The Excitement of Battle 84
3 Explaining Combat 89
a Tactics, Morale, and the Stratagem 89
b Procopius, God and Morality 101
VI
CONTENTS
4 Generalship: Belisarius vs. the Shahanshah 105
a Enter Belisarius 107
b Enter Khusro 109
c Belisarius vs. Khusro 111
5 Concluding Thoughts 113
3 How to Defeat the Vandals in Combat n5
1 The Vandal Wars 116
2 Describing Combat n7
a Narrative Order 117
b The Role of the Narrator 122
c Numbers and Names 125
d Textual Unity and Internal Referencing 131
3 Explaining Combat 134
a Exhortations and Morale 134
b Guerrilla Warfare and the Absence of Fighting 139
c The Desire for Plunder 141
d Procopius and Ancient Military Maxims 145
4 Generalship: Belisarius, the Lucky and Prepared General 152
5 Concluding Thoughts 157
4 How to Defeat the Goths in Combat 158
1 The Gothic Wars 159
2 Describing Combat 160
a Graphic Battle Scenes 161
b Single Combat 169
c Myriads, Romans and Barbarians 171
3 Explaining Combat 177
a Arete 177
b Horse-Archery 181
4 Generalship: Belisarius and Heroic Leadership 188
a Leading From the Front: Heroic Leadership 188
b The Achilles Ethos vs. the Odysseus Ethos 190
5 Concluding Thoughts 196
5 Book Eight 197
1 Battles 199
a River Hippis 199
b Senogallia 201
c Busta Gallorum 203
CONTENTS
VII
2 Sieges 210
a Archaeopolis 210
b Petra 214
3 Concluding Thoughts 218
6 Procopius Worldview and the Wider Intellectual Context 219
1 Procopius Audience 219
2 Didacticism, Combat and Culture 224
3 The “Face of Procopian Combat 231
4 Conclusion 232
Map: The World of Justinian 236
Appendix 1: Glossary of Procopian Battles and Sieges 237
Appendix 2: Win/Loss Records of the Persian and Roman Armies in the
Persian Wars 244
Select Bibliography 247
Index 272
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