Asclepiodotus Tacticus was a Greek writer and philosopher

Philosophy

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, and a pupil of Posidonius

Posidonius

Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes" , was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age...

. According to
Seneca

Seneca the Younger

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, he wrote a work entitled Quaestionum Naturalium Causae.

A short work on military tactics

Military tactics

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 survives. He is one of the earliest military writers whose studies on tactics have come down to us. He was not striped in the Helian nor Arrian's lists of tacticians, but in the earliest manuscript of the Tactics (Téchne taktiké), the work is attributed to Asclepiodotus. Tactics describes the workings of the Macedonian phalanx

Phalanx formation

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Further reading

• Aeneas Tactitus, Asclepiodotus, and Onasander. Translated by Illinois Greek Club. Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 0-674-99172-9