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Aeneas Tacticus
Aeneas Tacticus
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Aeneas Tacticus was a Greek military writer, generally placed in the mid-4th century BCE, who composed the earliest surviving Greek treatise on the art of war. Of his work only the "Poliorcetica" (How to Survive Under Siege) survives largely intact—a practical handbook on defending a besieged city, covering guard duties, signaling, countermeasures against treachery, and civic morale. Many scholars identify him with Aeneas of Stymphalus, an Arcadian general mentioned by Xenophon, though this remains uncertain. His vivid concern with internal sedition makes his text a valuable window into the politics of the Greek polis.
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Stymphalus
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About Stymphalus
Stymphalus was a town of northeastern Arcadia, in the central Peloponnese, set by a lake famous in myth for the Stymphalian birds slain by Heracles. The military writer Aeneas Tacticus, author of a surviving treatise on withstanding siege, is traditionally identified with Aeneas of Stymphalus, an Arcadian general of the mid-fourth century BC.