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	Aeneas - LoveToKnow 1911
		AENEAS, the famous Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, one of the most important figures in Greek and Roman legendary history.
		The story of Aeneas, as a sequel to the legend of Troy, formed the subject of several epic romances in the middle ages.
		The trouvere, however, omits the greater part of the wanderings of Aeneas, and adorns his narrative with gorgeous descriptions, with accounts of the marvellous properties of beasts and stones, and of single combats among the knights who figure in the story.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aeneas (640 words)

	Aeneas Tacticus - LoveToKnow 1911
		AENEAS TACTICUS (4th century B.c.), one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war.
		According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises ('T7rowinlara) on the subject; the only one extant deals with the best methods of defending a fortified city.
		Aeneas was considered by Casaubon to have been a contemporary of Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (Hellenica, vii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AE/AENEAS_TACTICUS.htm (227 words)

	Aelianus Tacticus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aelian (Aelianus Tacticus) was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome.
		The Macedonian phalanx of Aelian had many points of resemblance to the solid masses of pikemen and the squadrons of cavalry of the Spanish and Dutch systems, and the translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics.
		Moreover, his works, with those of Xenophon, Polybius, Aeneas Tacticus and Arrian, were minutely studied by every soldier of the 16th and 17th centuries who wished to be master of his profession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aelianus_Tacticus (390 words)

	Harvard University Press: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against siege.
		From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BC who served in the Aegean and in Asia Minor and composed the work from direct knowledge and from oral and some literary tradition, possibly in 357–6 BC.
		It is also concerned with such matters as his choice of staff; attitude to war; religious duties; military formations; conduct in allied and hostile lands; difficult terrains; camps; drill; spies; guards; deserters; battle formations and maneuvers; and other matters, ending with conduct after victory.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L156.html (340 words)

	Essence of the matter-Aelianus Tacticus. wik5.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Aelian (Aelianus Tacticus) was a Hellenism military writer of the 2nd century Anno domini, resident at Rome.
		The Macedonian рhalanx of Aelian had many рoints of resemblance to the solid masses of рikemen and the squadrons of cavalry of the Sрain and Netherlands systems, and the translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics.
		Moreover, his works, with those of Xenoрhon, Polybius, Aeneas Tacticus and Arrian, were minutely studied by every soldier of the 16th and 17th century who wished to be master of his рrofession.
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	Aeneas Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BC who served in the Aegean and in Asia Minor and composed the work from direct knowledge and from oral and some literary tradition...
		This lively, first-hand narrative of the turning-point in the affairs of the Council of Basle was written by Aeneas Sylvius (later Pope Pius II) during his unregenerate conciliar period.
		Aineias Tacticus (mid-fourth century B.C.) is not only the earliest but also the most historically interesting of ancient military writers.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Aeneas (592 words)

	Tacticus, Ltd. - Consultants & Suppliers of Security Products
		Tacticus, Ltd. is a consulting firm specializing in homeland security and law enforcement technology, equipment and training.
		In the 4th century BC, Aeneas Tacticus was one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war, and many of his writings and illustrations included the best methods for defending a fortified city.
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	World-Information.Org
		Aeneas Tacticus invents a form of beacons, by introducing a sort of
		Julius Caesar develops an enciphering method, later called the Caesar Cipher, shifting each letter of the alphabet an amount which is fixed before.
		Supposedly his real name was Aeneas of Stymphalus.
	world-information.org /wio/infostructure/100437611776/100438659084?ic=100446325293 (162 words)

	Odyssey aeneas - Haoyunlaicn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Aeneas and Dido Judgementencounter with Ajax in Homers' Odyssey but whereas that is rather matter-of-fact in tone, with Dido, Aeneas is filled with pity and anguish
		We begin by concentrating on Homer’s Odyssey, one of the earliest surviving masterpiecesAeneid, which tells of the Trojan prince, Aeneas’ divine mission to found Rome.
		The flight of Aeneas after the Trojan War leads to untold adventures.
	www.haoyunlaicn.com /odyssey/odyssey-aeneas.html (339 words)

	Vanderbilt University - New Books for Classics - October 2001
		English and Greek] Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander / with an English translation by members of the Illinois Greek Club.
		Aeneas takes the Metro : the presence of Virgil in twentieth-century French literature / Oxford : Legenda, 1999.
		Dido und Aeneas : Vergils Dido-Drama und Aspekte seiner Rezeption / Gerhard Binder (Hg.) ; unter mitwirkung von Janine Andrae...
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /central/Classics/Classics-Oct2001.html (2293 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.07.15
		The fourth chapter analyses the potential difficulties in sending and interpretation of messages, and the fifth counter-intelligence and methods to retain information.
		In part the perception of intelligence may be a question of semantics -- one can refer to night watchmen as 'surveillance agents', to Themistocles' messages to the Ionians inscribed on the rocks (Hdt.
		He accepts Pritchett's thesis in a modified form, agreeing that organised intelligence became more common after 400, yet maintains that the use of intelligence was common in the fifth century, though hidden by the nature of our sources.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-07-15.html (1410 words)

	Project BookRead - FREE Online Book: Encyclopedia Anglicana by Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Latinus, but is defeated and slain by Aeneas on the river
		AENEAS TACTICUS (4th century B.C.), one of the earliest
		Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises
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	a fidúcia em crise
		A vowel-based alphabet like that unique Greek invention2 that with good reason has been credited with being the “first total analysis of a language”3 therefore does indeed seem to be a necessary precondition for the development of codes—but, nevertheless, not a completely sufficient one.
		After all, what the Greeks lacked—notwithstanding sporadic allusions to the utilization of ciphers and secret writings in the works of Aischylos, Aeneas Tacticus and Plutarch4—was that second precondition of all forms of encryption—namely, highly developed telecommunications technology.
		It thus seems to me to be no mere happenstance that the accounts that have come down to us of secret message systems neatly coincide with the emergence of the Roman Empire.
	www.interact.com.pt /interact10/ensaio/ensaio2.html (2684 words)

	The Legend of Poe the Cryptographer
		Polybius says, that Aeneas Tactitius, 2000 years ago, collected together 20 different manners of writing so as not to be understood.
		Even two thousand years ago, Aeneas Tacticus detailed twenty distinct methods;.
		To those who desire more information on this topic, we may say that there are extant treatises by Trithemius, Cap.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/poeperplex/cryptop.htm (1648 words)

	VDH's Private Papers::The Status of Ancient Military History
		Whitehead, Aineias the Tactician: How to Survive Under Siege (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) provides a much needed commentary to, and translation of, Aeneas Tacticus, the only tactical manual other than the minor works of Xenophon (available in the Loeb series with English translation and facing Greek text) to survive from Classical Greece.
		Aeneas, apparently a Stymphalian general of the 360s B.C. who gave pragmatic advice to military professionals and their elite masters, comprises more than a manual of arms, but rather offers a masterful psychological glimpse of the paranoia and instability of the fourthcentury Greek city-state.
		Perhaps that imbalance explains why the reputation and popularity of Hans Delbruck have grown, not diminished, in the last few decades, as scholars increasingly appreciate just how unusual it was for an officer and military historian to read Greek and Latin as well as a number of modern languages.
	victorhanson.com /articles/hanson0499v63i2.html (10836 words)

	Dido and Aeneas Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		Although it takes little more than an hour to perform, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century En...
		Monumental epic of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west—Rome.
		Search Dido and Aeneas from UK database and other international databases.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search/Dido_and_Aeneas.html (531 words)

	Vegetius et al - www.ezboard.com
		There is also Asclepiodotus who wrote a Tactica some time after 50 BC and Aelian whose Tactica dates to before Trajan's Parthian campaign.
		Asclepiodotus is in the Loeb volume with Aeneas Tacticus and Onasander.
		Aelian was translated in a volume of the journal The Ancient World (number 19 IIRC)(also published by Ares).
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	Module description for HS3345 and HS3346 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Students will study a selection of Greek texts, both historical and epigraphic (to a value of 25 OCT pages) chosen each year with reference to their Ancient History modules and their general interests.
		Texts will be chosen from a selection which might include Herodotus, Thucydides, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Lysias, Aeneas Tacticus and selected inscriptions.
		Texts will be studied for both grammatical structure, and their importance to historical debates.
	www.cf.ac.uk /hisar/modules/HS3346 (272 words)

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		These beacons, which were simple prearranged signals, served as precursors to the telegraph.
		It was the Greek military scientist named Aeneas Tacticus who developed this ingenious method of communicating messages using the simplest torch signals in the 4th century BCE.
		The way in which this system works is that two armies who wish to communicate with each other would have to create two sets of identical equipment.
	www.smith.edu /hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/decoder2.html (502 words)

	Incendiary Weapons - History
		The blast passing closely confined into the cauldron, filled with lighted coals, sulfur and pitch made a great blaze and set fire to the wall."
		Aeneas Tacticus in the following century mentions a mixture of sulphur, pitch, charcoal, incense and tow, which was packed in wooden vessels and thrown lighted upon the decks of the enemy’s ships.
		Later, as in receipts given by Vegetius (c.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/incendiary-history.htm (1084 words)

	Abstract
		Chapter One considers Cicero’s letters and his efforts at procuring stable epistolary communication.
		It continues with an examination of Aeneas Tacticus’ theories of cryptography and other technologies for counteracting the threat of interception.
		Chapter Two explores the myths of Bellerophon and Palamedes, in which the nascent art of letter writing proves to be a deadly one.
	www.trinity.edu /tjenkins/abstract.html (341 words)

	Cheryl Walker, Hostages in Republican Rome - Chapter 1: Meaning and Purpose of Hostageship in the Greco-Roman World ...
		Latin vades); and ἐνέχυρα of persons acting as pledges (Dionysius of Halicarnassus 6.84.2; Aeneas Tacticus 5.1; Appian Civil Wars 1.44; cf.
		Caesar encountered three other such alliances, of various towns of the Belgae in 57 B.C. Gallic War 2.1.1), of the Aquitani in 56 B.C. Gallic War 3.23.2), and of the Carnutes in 52 B.C. (who abstained from exchanging hostages in order to prevent a premature revelation of their plans for revolt, Gallic War 7.2.2).
		According to legend, the Trojans and the Italian aborigines agreed to exchange hostages in [4] order to secure their treaty; Latinus kept Aeneas’ offspring Romulus and Remus, and upon Latinus’ death without heirs of his body, the erstwhile hostages succeeded him (Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.59.1-2).
	www.chs.harvard.edu /publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/cheryl_walker_hostages/walker_ch01_tei.xml (6141 words)

	I AM A WIZ. COM: Communicating at Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With beacons using simple pre-arranged signals, the history of the telegraph began.
		A variation was developed by a Greek military scientist named Aeneas Tacticus.
		Two army commanders who wished to communicate would first have to prepare two sets of the same equipment.
	www.iamawiz.com /communication/habeas.htm (2019 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.13
		There is also a twenty page introduction, in which C. gives overviews in turn of Greek and Roman warfare and then deals with the phenomenon of the ancient military writer.
		The majority are from works less often read by undergraduates, the likes of Frontinus, Aeneas Tacticus, and the opera minora of Xenophon, as well as a few for which there is no English translation available, e.g.
		Only forty (i.e., less than one seventh) of the excerpts come from Polybius, Caesar, Thucydides or Xenophon.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-08-13.html (542 words)

	Amazon Online Reader : Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library, No. 156) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library, No. 156)
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	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		We have indeed mentioned only a few of the ordinary modes of cipher.
		ago, Æneas Tacticus detailed twenty distinct methods; and modern ingenuity has added much to the science.
		Our design has been chiefly suggestive; and perhaps we have already bored the readers of the Magazine.
	www.eapoe.org /works/essays/fwsw0741.htm (4197 words)

	SIGNAL - Online Information article about SIGNAL
		Polybius describes two methods, one proposed by See also:
		Aeneas Tacticus more than three centuries before See also:
		Christ, and one perfected by himself, which, as any word could be spelled by it, anticipated the underlying principle of later systems.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIGNAL.html (7008 words)

	Thomas E. Jenkins' Professional Page
		My forthcoming book, Intercepted Letters, focuses on the intersection of epistolarity, myth, and narrative, or the ways in which writing was constructed in ancient literature as a medium of miscommunication.
		Topics included forgery, flmail, cryptography, and epistolary personae; authors included Euripides, Aeneas Tacticus, Ovid, and the authors of the Historia Augusta.
		The book will be published in 2006 in the series Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Studies, ed.
	www.trinity.edu /tjenkins/professional.html (300 words)

	Cheryl Walker, Hostages in Republican Rome - Chapter 4: The Termination of Hostageship [144-191]
		In 189 B.C. the Cephallenian city of Same, after an initial capitulation and the surrender of some hostages to the Roman commander, determined to resist; the hostages were sent before the city’s walls to stir up the pity of the inhabitants, presumably to persuade thereby a second submission (Livy 38.28.9).
		[100] We cannot mistake the intended intimidation, especially if the sentence is taken in conjunction with the passage from Aeneas Tacticus.
		The language which describes another, much later, incident creates a similarly uneasy atmosphere in which there is no overt menace from the recipient government; in this instance, the recipient government instead shifts the blame for any harm done the hostages to the donor state.
	www.chs.harvard.edu /publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/cheryl_walker_hostages/walker_ch04_tei.xml (14530 words)

	Cryptology
		Once unwrapped the parchment appeared to contain an incomprehensible set of letters, however when wrapped around another baton of identical size the original text appears.
		The Greeks were therefore the inventors of the first transposition cipher and in the fourth century BC the earliest treatise on the subject was written by a Greek, Aeneas Tacticus, as part of a work entitled On the Defence of Fortifications.
		Another Greek, Polybius later devised a means of encoding letters into pairs of symbols using a device known as the Polybius checkerboard which contains many elements common to later encryption systems.
	www.ridex.co.uk /cryptology/index.html (10089 words)

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