Vegetius and Emperor. Bannikov A.

Among the ancient military treatises that have reached us, the “Brief presentation of the Military Grandfather” Flavius ​​Vegent Renata occupies a special place. Although this essay is a late -mean compilation, nevertheless, both by the nature of the material collected in it, and by the degree of its reliability - it is the most difficult of all known works of this type.

the main part of the material of the autonomous He gleaned from sources of the time of the republic or principle. At the same time, he could not completely abstract from the realities of the reality surrounding him, a large number of allusions for which are present in the text of the treatise. This information is unique, since they allow you to reconstruct the processes that began in the Roman military organization immediately after the defeat of Emperor Valent in the battle of Adrianopol - the events at which ammonia Marcellin stops his narrative.