Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Raul Vitor Rodrigues Peixoto.pdf: 1319002 bytes, checksum: 0675166767134d0e7963f041cc751b22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-13 / This dissertation work aims to propose a typology of Roman military manuals of the period of the Principate. For this we use the two textual documents Stratagemata of Sextus Julius Frontinus and Polyaenus Strategica. We conducted an analysis of the lives of these authors, their works and military events of the most remarkable period in which they lived and wrote aiming a better understanding of why the roman aristocracy produced and consumed this type of literature. / Este trabalho de dissertação tem como objetivo propor uma tipologia dos manuais militares romanos do período do Principado. Para isso usamos dois documentos textuais o Stratagemata de Sexto Julio Frontino e o Strategica de Polieno. Procedemos uma analise da vida destes autores, suas obras e eventos militares mais marcantes do período em que viveram e escreveram objetivando uma melhor compreensão dos motivos pelos quais a aristocracia romana produziu e consumiu este tipo de literatura.

This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have received in the scholarship so far. I will explore areas such as the way in which their authors order and rank Greek and Roman knowledge, engage with ideas about knowledge and power, help construct identity and discuss ethics and behavior. In the first chapter I will determine whether the authors operate within a specific ‘genre’, or ‘genres’, of military writing. Then I will explore how the texts relate to other traditions of technical texts, questions of audience, and finally the issue of their practicality. The second chapter will examine how authors tackle the issue of ‘Greek’ and ‘Roman’ knowledge, categorize, rank and use it for self-promotion. We will see how Roman knowledge is both subverted but also praised, and how Greek knowledge is at the same time placed above Roman knowledge and integrated into a narrative of continuity with it. The third chapter will focus on the use of Greek knowledge in the construction of Roman identity. I will explore how ‘manuals’ play a part in the identity of the Roman Empire, fitting into a picture of unity in diversity, and show how they contribute to Hadrian’s self-presentation. The fourth chapter will examine the ethical component in manuals. I will determine whether there was an ethical code of conduct in battle in the Classical world and whether it was different from general ethical norms. Then, we will examine whether our texts engage in any way with this ‘code’ and whether their individual approaches have anything in common or are fundamentally different.