Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century

A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris

Theotokis, Georgios; Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios

Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Introduction 1

Part A: the author and the work 1

Syrianos magistros and the compendium of Anonymus Byzantinus 1

Assigning a name to Anonymus Byzantinus 3

Assigning a date to the compendium of Syrianos 6

Dating the compendium and the geo-political background of the period 11

A note on the sources 21

The manuscript tradition 25

Part B: the contents of the work 28

The history of exhortation and exhortative speeches 28

The "practicalities" of exhortation speeches: where, when, how 35

The skills of a commander as a public speaker 37

Rhetorical topoi in building morale 39

Note on the translation 55

Hortatory public speeches: drawing their arguments from various sources 57

For the zeal for the faith 61

For the fatherland 62

For the love for our compatriots 62

For the punishment of evildoers 63

Other made-up arguments 67

From religion 70

From the mode of life 70

From the slander of the enemy army 70

From [the right] time 70

From the place 70

From the cause 70

From the past, in this way 71

From the present, such as 71

From the future, such as 71

From the fabrications, such as 71

The achievements of the audience 72

The achievements of the ancestors of the audience 73

The achievements of others 73

More examples about the useful 77

The preparation of weapons 77

The training in war tactics 78

Bravery 79

The endurance of pain 79

The obedience to the commanders 79

The study of the glorious 80

The study of the possible 80

The study of the outcome of the battle 81

Example of a consolatory speech, in the absence of the transposition of the cause [when the reproach

takes place, then the transposition of the cause is missing] 87

Bibliography 88
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Leo III;Military cultures;Byzantine Military Treatises;Military history;Byzantine Military;Byzantine political ideology;Vice Versa;Byzantine empire;Field Events;Byzantine military rhetoric;Leo VI;Modern Language;Ninth Century Work;Exhortation Speeches;Nikephoros Phokas;Constantine VII;Aeneas Tacticus;Naval Forces;Emperor Constantine VII;De Administrando Imperio;Capital Punishment;Lingua Franca;Imperial Fleet;Magister Officiorum;Southern Aegean;Anonymus Byzantinus;Michael II;Sixth Century Date