The term ''Tactica'' or ''Taktika'' ( el, Τακτικά) can refer to:
Two
Byzantine military treatises
This article lists and briefly discusses the most important of many treatises on military science produced in the Byzantine Empire.
Background
The Eastern Roman Empire was, for much of its history, one of the major powers of the medieval world. ...
on tactics and strategy:
* the
Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise
The ''Tactica'' ( el, Τακτικά) is a military treatise written by or on behalf of Eastern Roman Emperor Leo VI the Wise in c. 895–908 and later edited by his son, Constantine VII.Edward N. Luttwak, ''The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine ...
, written in the early 10th century and attributed to the emperor
Leo VI the Wise
Leo VI, called the Wise ( gr, Λέων ὁ Σοφός, Léōn ho Sophós, 19 September 866 – 11 May 912), was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (although his parentage is unclear), he was very well r ...
* the
Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos
Nikephoros Ouranos ( el, Νικηφόρος Οὐρανός; fl. c. 980 – c. 1010), Latinized as Nicephorus Uranus, was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general during the reign of Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025). One of the emperor's clo ...
, written in the early 11th century by
Nikephoros Ouranos
Nikephoros Ouranos ( el, Νικηφόρος Οὐρανός; fl. c. 980 – c. 1010), Latinized as Nicephorus Uranus, was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general during the reign of Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025). One of the emperor's clo ...
, a Byzantine general
The treatises on administrative structure, court protocol and precedence written in the Byzantine Empire, collectively called "''Taktika''". These were:
* the ''
Taktikon Uspensky
The ''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 ...
'', written c. 842
* the ''
Kletorologion
The ''Klētorologion'' of Philotheos ( el, Κλητορολόγιον), is the longest and most important of the Byzantine lists of offices and court precedence ('' Taktika'').. It was published in September 899 during the reign of Emperor Leo VI t ...
'' of Philotheos, written in 899
* the ''
Taktikon Benešević'', written in 934–944
* the ''