11-22-2004, 06:06 PM
Hi,<br>
<br>
My apologies for adding this at so late a date, but today I came across a reference about Late Roman tactical maps in Nicasie, Martijn (1997): Twilight of Empire, the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian until the Battle of Adrianople (Thesis Amsterdam), p. 208. Nicasie referrred to the Strategikon by Maurikios, XX 41-44.<br>
"Apparently, sketches of the terrain were recommended to be drawn, so that the army would be prepared if the need arose to tracerce it."<br>
<br>
I tried to look it up in my copy of the Strategikon (ed. by George T. Dennis) but could not find it.<br>
<br>
Anyway, this would likely go back on a practise of the Late Roman army at best, not all the way to the late 1st century, as was the original question.<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>
<br>
My apologies for adding this at so late a date, but today I came across a reference about Late Roman tactical maps in Nicasie, Martijn (1997): Twilight of Empire, the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian until the Battle of Adrianople (Thesis Amsterdam), p. 208. Nicasie referrred to the Strategikon by Maurikios, XX 41-44.<br>
"Apparently, sketches of the terrain were recommended to be drawn, so that the army would be prepared if the need arose to tracerce it."<br>
<br>
I tried to look it up in my copy of the Strategikon (ed. by George T. Dennis) but could not find it.<br>
<br>
Anyway, this would likely go back on a practise of the Late Roman army at best, not all the way to the late 1st century, as was the original question.<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
