Vânătorul negru (excerpts)

Excerpts from Vidal-Naquet's "The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World" - a classical interpretation of several Greek mind and cultural phenomena - regarding the battle of Leuctra. In war, whoever changes first the rules is the most likely to win - but were Epaminonda's improvisations purely strategic or rather backed by a philosophical framework? Were the new battle tactics arbitrary, cunning or were they altering the whole ancient Greek worldview thoroughly? Only Chapter 3 from Part I (Space and Time), "Epaminondas the Pythagorean, or The Tactical Problem of Right and Left"