Tactica
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The term Tactica or Taktika can refer to:
Two Byzantine military treatises
on tactics and strategy:
The treatises on administrative structure, court protocol and precedence written in the Byzantine Empire, collectively called "Taktika". These were:
Two Byzantine military treatises
Byzantine military manuals
This article lists and briefly discusses the most important of a large number of treatises on military science produced in the Byzantine Empire.- Background :...
on tactics and strategy:
- the Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the WiseTactica of Emperor Leo VI the WiseThe Tactica is a military treatise written by or on behalf of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise in ca. 895-908. Drawing on earlier authors such as Aelian, Onasander and the Strategikon of emperor Maurice, it is one of the major works on Byzantine military tactics, written on the eve of Byzantium's...
, written in the early 10th century and attributed to the emperor Leo VI the WiseLeo VI the WiseLeo VI, surnamed the Wise or the Philosopher , was Byzantine emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty , he was very well-read, leading to his surname...
. - the Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos, written in the early 11th century by Nikephoros OuranosNikephoros OuranosNikephoros Ouranos was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general during the reign of Emperor Basil II. One of the emperor's closest associates, he was active in Europe in the wars against the Bulgarians, scoring a major victory at Spercheios, and against the Arabs in Syria, where he held...
, a Byzantine general.
The treatises on administrative structure, court protocol and precedence written in the Byzantine Empire, collectively called "Taktika". These were:
- the Taktikon UspenskyTaktikon UspenskyThe Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine Empire and their precedence at the imperial court. Nicolas Oikonomides has dated it to 842/843, making it the first of a series of such...
, written ca. 842 - the KletorologionKletorologionThe Klētorologion of Philotheos , is the longest and most important of the Byzantine lists of offices and court precedence . It was published in September of 899 during the reign of Emperor Leo VI the Wise by the otherwise unknown prōtospatharios and atriklinēs Philotheos...
of Philotheos, written in 899 - the Escorial TaktikonEscorial TaktikonThe Escorial Taktikon , also known as the Taktikon Oikonomides after Nicolas Oikonomides who first edited it, is a list of Byzantine offices, dignities, and titles composed in Constantinople during the 970s...
or Taktikon Oikonomides after its first editor, written ca. 971-975 - the "Book of Offices" (Taktikon) of pseudo-Kodinos, written in the mid-14th century