Scytale Was Not a Transposition Cipher

I uploaded a reorganized summary version of "Scytale Not as a Transposition Cipher" at Academia.edu.
Today, a scytale is explained as a tool for transposition cipher for letters, but such a definition of scytale was established only around 1900.
The original version was posted in 2014, which has grown with sources of historical description of scytale. As a result, it is now something like a motley collection of documents. So, I had to reorganize the whole to make a readable summary version. In the process, I made some updates, so I believe the summary version is more focused about the issue.