Strategists. Polyen

The reader is proposed to the second edition of the famous composition of the Greek author of the mid -II century BC. e. From Macedonia, about which it is known that by the time of the beginning of the Parthian war (161-162), despite his advanced age, he continued to act as a lawyer in imperial ships in Rome and it was there for a rather short period that wrote an essay on military tricks under the name “strategists”, which subsequently brought world fame.

, this essay is essentially a talented compilation, which, however, in no way reduces the significance of this book for historians, since the evidence given by polyienes, Sometimes unique, because many of the sources used by the author of Strategim have not been preserved. On the pages of this work, the reader will meet with a fascinating description of military tricks, tricks and heroic acts of Greek, Roman and barbaric kings and commanders, starting with mythological heroes and ending with Caesar and Octavian Augustus. military thought and military practice of antiquity. The translation of the text is equipped with extensive comments.

2nd edition, corrected and supplemented.