03-09-2007, 01:58 PM
Hello,
no, Vegetius actually deals (also) with individual training.
Polybius, as you say, deals with individual training but only breifly, at X.20 (though it is an interesting insight in Scipio's Spanish campaign in II punic war).
There's more about unit training and mock battles, as you say, but I can't recall the source now.
I would add another important source for later army individual training: Maurice's Strategikon I.1.
Vale
no, Vegetius actually deals (also) with individual training.
Polybius, as you say, deals with individual training but only breifly, at X.20 (though it is an interesting insight in Scipio's Spanish campaign in II punic war).
There's more about unit training and mock battles, as you say, but I can't recall the source now.
I would add another important source for later army individual training: Maurice's Strategikon I.1.
Vale
Iuppiter Optimus Maximus resistere atque iterare pugnam iubet
(Liv. I.12)
Tiberius Claudius Nero
a.k.a. Carlo Sansilvestri
CONTUBERNIUM
SISMA - Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
(Liv. I.12)
Tiberius Claudius Nero
a.k.a. Carlo Sansilvestri
CONTUBERNIUM
SISMA - Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
