Book Review: Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century. A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris, London -New York 2021


Published: Dec 1, 2021
Keywords:
Byzantine army Syrianos Magister military rhetoric
Łukasz RóżYCKI
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1536-3387
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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century. A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris, trans. Georgios Theotokis, Dimitrios Sidiropoulos, London – New York 2021.

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Łukasz RóżYCKI, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Professor in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Studies
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