So, a lot of new followers. Welcome! I mostly use this space to nerd out a bunch about ancient history, military history, or both. I also have a blog where I do mostly that thing, but more so: https://acoup.blog/ I also occasionally opine on geopolitics/nat-sec Cheers!
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Or alternatively do you have any books you could recommend on the subject?
Nothing off the top of my head. Ancient generals basically never met face to face like this - the one exception I can think of is Valerian's surrender at Edessa (260) where he was betrayed and captured, but this was *after* the battle (which Valerian had lost).
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My *sense* is that this is really an 18th/19th century convention (along with the 'Honors of War') which gets retrojected backwards (typically as a sign that earlier warfare as primitive and quaint), not a common feature of the pre-modern world.
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More often, negotiations, if they were done, were done through ambassadors and heralds, or by letter exchanges.
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