Vegetius - Epitoma Rei Militaris

Informationen zum Autor M. D. Reeve is Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge Klappentext Few secular works of antiquity were as popular in the Middle Ages as Vegetius' Epitoma, the broadest ancient manual of Roman warfare. This edition is the first to be based on a comprehensive investigation of over 200 surviving manuscripts. The apparatus gives a full account of the readings that medieval scribes inherited from antiquity. Zusammenfassung The first modern critical edition (based on a comprehensive investigation of over 200 surviving manuscripts) of the fullest ancient manual of Roman warfare. Few secular authors of antiquity were as popular in the Middle Ages as Vegetius (AD 379-95). In addition to the Latin text and apparatus there is also a wide-ranging introduction in English.

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• Authors: M. D. (EDT) Reeve, Vegetius, Flavius Vegetius Renatus
• Assisted by: M. D. Reeve (Editor), M. D. (Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge) Reeve (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2004
• EAN: 9780199264643
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926464-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford Classical Texts; Print On Demand; Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliot; Print on Demand; Oxford Classical Texts
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature