The date of the military compendium of Syrianus Magister (Formerly the sixth-century anonymus Byzantinus)

The Greek military manual known by the modern titles Peq· Stqatgcij/r or De Re Strategica, and conventionally ascribed to the sixth-century Anonymus Byzantinus, has been substantially transformed by recent scholarship. This treatise on diverse aspects of warfare has been edited twice, by Herman Kçchly and Wilhelm R6stow in 1855, and by George Dennis in 1986, on both occasions published as a discrete and self-contained item, of which the author and title were unknown owing to the loss of the initial folio in the manuscript prototypes. Thanks to Constantine Zuckerman=s magisterial study of 1990, De Re Strategica has at last been reunited with two other sections of the same work preserved separately in the manuscript tradition, an anonymous Rhetorica Militaris and a Naumachia, both of which had been edited independently. Since the unique manuscript of the Naumachia bears an