Frontinus’ Strategemata are generally considered and used as Sekundärliteratur. The anecdotes regarding the civil war between Caesar and Pompey do not escape this practice. However, Frontinus’ approach to his sources, which is particularly noteworthy for this period of Roman history, clearly demonstrates that the aims of this work are not to report and reconstruct events of war, but to oπer examples of stratagems which are taken out of historical context and re-contextualised in a military function, in order to provide the generals with models of behaviour and examples to be inspired by. These aims are explicitly stated in the preface to the work and are fulfilled
Frontino e la storia delle guerre civili
I. Eramo
2024-01-01
Abstract
Frontinus’ Strategemata are generally considered and used as Sekundärliteratur. The anecdotes regarding the civil war between Caesar and Pompey do not escape this practice. However, Frontinus’ approach to his sources, which is particularly noteworthy for this period of Roman history, clearly demonstrates that the aims of this work are not to report and reconstruct events of war, but to oπer examples of stratagems which are taken out of historical context and re-contextualised in a military function, in order to provide the generals with models of behaviour and examples to be inspired by. These aims are explicitly stated in the preface to the work and are fulfilledI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
