Aeneas Tacticus

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Aeneas Tacticus

Greek general

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ancient Greek civilization
Historical writings
…Stymphalus in Arcadia (known as Aeneas Tacticus) is valuable not only for the evidence it provides about dissensions (stasis) inside a polis—there is an entire section on “plots”—but also for the awareness both of the ruthless methods of men like Dionysius, who figures prominently, and of the new military technology…
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…Stymphalus in Arcadia (known as Aeneas Tacticus) is valuable not only for the evidence it provides about dissensions (stasis) inside a polis—there is an entire section on “plots”—but also for the awareness both of the ruthless methods of men like Dionysius, who figures prominently, and of the new military technology…
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cryptology
Early cryptographic systems and applications
During the 4th century bce, Aeneas Tacticus wrote a work entitled On the Defense of Fortifications, one chapter of which was devoted to cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. Another Greek, Polybius (c. 200–118 bce), devised a means of encoding letters into pairs of symbols by a…
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During the 4th century bce, Aeneas Tacticus wrote a work entitled On the Defense of Fortifications, one chapter of which was devoted to cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. Another Greek, Polybius (c. 200–118 bce), devised a means of encoding letters into pairs of symbols by a…
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