Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic

ISBN-13: 9781138480193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 348 str.

Jeremy Armstrong; Michael P. Fronda

Opis

This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BCE.

Spis treści

1. Writing About Romans at War  2. The Institutionalization of Warfare in Early Rome  3. The Price of Expansion: Agriculture, debt-dependency, and warfare during the rise of the Republic, c. 450-287  4. The Dilectus-Tributum System and the Settlement of Fourth Century Italy  5. Organized Chaos: Manipuli, Socii, and the Roman Army c. 300  6. Poor Man’s War -- Rich Man’s Fight: Military Integration in Republican Rome  7. "Take the Sword Away From That Girl!" Combat, Gender, and Vengeance in the Middle Republic  8. The Middle Republican Soldier and Systems of Social Distinction  9. Uncovering a "Lost Generation" in the Senate: Demography and the Hannibalic War  10. Titus Quinctius Flamininus’ "Italian Triumph"  11. Ager Publicus: Land as a Spoil of War in the Roman Republic  12. The Manipular Army System and Command Decisions in the Second Century  13. Anecdotal History and the Social War  14. SPQR SNAFU: Indiscipline and Internal Conflict in the Late Republic  15. From Slave to Citizen: The Lessons of Servius Tullius  16. The Transformation of the Roman Army in the Last Decades of the Republic  17. Epilogue