Polyaenus
- Textgroups:
- tlg0616
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.1152
- Tlg id:
- tlg0616
- Alt id:
- LCCN n 94028544
- Name:
- Polyaenus
- Abbr:
- Polyaen.
- Alt names:
- Πολύαινος
Polyaenus, the Macedonian
Polyen
Poluainos
Polyainos
Polieno
Poliajnos
Polyan
Polyaenus, Historicus
Polyaen.
- Field of activity:
- Historian
Rhetor
Strategist
Military Author
- Notes:
- Polyaeni indices, 1992
LC data base, 3-23-94 (hdg.: Polyaenus)
Gli Strategemmi di Polieno, c1997
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 328
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 3,
1867, p. 482: "Polyaenus, 4, the Macedonian, the author of the work on Strategems in
war...which is still extant.."
Brill's New Pauly: "Polyaenus, 4, Rhetor and Lawyer at Rome 2nd cent.
A.D., P. of Macedonia.... was active at Rome as an orator and lawyer under Marcus [2]
Aurelius and Lucius Verus. To them, at the outbreak of the Parthian War (Parthian and Persian
Wars) in AD 162, he dedicated a collection of 'Strategems in War' (Stratēgiká or Stratēgḗmata)
in eight books, a handbook for successful warfare .." Meister, Klaus (Berlin) Meister, Klaus
(Berlin). "Polyaenus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2010. Brill Online.
- Author info:
- Wikipedia
- Worldcat Identities
- Smith's Dictionary
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