Evans Richard, Tougher Shaun (eds.). Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium

Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 375 p.Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine military worlds. This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century CE. Across this broad span, it explores a range of ideas on how to be a successful general, showing how the art of generalship – a profession that has been occupied variously by the political elite, the mercenary soldier and the eunuch – evolved and adapted to shifting notions of how a good military leader should act.