AENEAS TACTICUS (4th century B.c.), Greek writer. According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises (inropylp.ara) on the art of war; the only one extant deals with the defence of fortified cities, and is chiefly valuable as containing a large number of historical illustrations. Aeneas was considered by Casaubon to have been a contemporary of Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (Hellenica, vii. 3) mentions as fighting at the battle of Mantinea (362 B.c.).
Editions in I. Casaubon's (1619), Gronovius' (167o) and Ernesti's (1763) eds. of Polybius; also separately, with the notes by J. C. Orelli (Leipzig, 1818). Other texts are those of W. Rilstow and H. Kochly, Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller, vol. i. (Leipzig, 1853) , and A. Hug, Prolegomena Critica ad Aeneae . . . editionem (Zurich univ. 1874), R. Schoene (Leipzig, 1911). See L. W. Hunter, Aeneas on Siegecraft (revised by S. A. Handford, 1927), an edition with trans lation and introduction, and the bibliography there given.