Kekaumenos
Kekaumenos
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Category="Byzantine Empire"Category="Byzantine people"Category="Roman military history"Kekaumenos is the family name of the otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of a Strategikon composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Greco-Armenian origin and the grandson of the dux of Hellenikos.
Sources
- "Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice" by Eric McGeer from The Medieval City under Siege
- Logos Nouthetetikos, or Oration of Admonition to an Emperor by William North