Marco Formisano, Humboldt University, Berlin

Although war itself is a matter of soldiers and weapons, things are different when one talks and writes about war. This lecture explores the strong connection between arms and letters established in ancient treatises on war, focusing on a characteristic triangulation. In the Western tradition, the dialectic of author, soldier and scholar fundamentally shapes the development of the literary genre of the art of war.

Marco Formisano is affiliated with the German Research Cooperative Center "Transformations of Antiquity." His visit is sponsored by Contexts for Classics at the University of Michigan.