How to choose the best field of battle – according to the authors of Roman military treatises
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2017-09-01
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Wydawnictwo Episteme & Autorzy
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The purpose of the piece How to choose the best field of battle - according to the authors of Roman military treatises is to present the ways of choosing a suitable location to fight a battle during late antiquity. The analysis covered mostly fragments of Vegetius' work, Strategίkon and passages from Syrianus Magister. The results clearly indicate that treatise authors l<new well the significance of choosing a suitable location to fight a battle. Though the author of Strategίkon demonstrates a different attitude towards choosing the field of battle than Vegetius, both works support the idea that if a reasonable choice was made that accounted for all the crucial factors, it would all but guarantee victory. Battles ίη the Antiquity carried with themselves a high degree of risk, and the task of the com mander, which holds true to this day, was to minimize the threat of defeat. Deciding οη a suitable battlefield was one of the ways to ensure success in the bloody contest of war.
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Ł. Różycki, How to choose the best field of battle – according to the authors of Roman military treatises, [w:] War in History The History of Polish and General Military Science, red. A. Niewiński, Lublin 2017, p. 23-39.