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Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ "Wars"

By Conor Whately

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004310363, 9789004310360
ISSN
1385-7827
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3818515 bytes)
Series
History of Warfare 111
Pages
xiv+276\291
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-05-27 13:13:39
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Description

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.

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