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Romans at war : soldiers, citizens and society in the Roman Republic / edited by Jeremy Armstrong and Michael P. Fronda.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- War and society--Rome.
- War and society.
- Soldiers--Rome.
- Soldiers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : maps.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Jeremy Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He received his BA from the University of New Mexico and his MLitt and PhD from the University of St Andrews. He works primarily on archaic central Italy, and most specifically early Roman warfare. He is the author of War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals (2016) and the editor of a number of volumes, including Rituals of Triumph (2013) and Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare (2016). Michael P. Fronda is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University. He writes on Roman political and military history, interstate relations, and Roman and Pre-Roman Italy. He is the author of Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War (2010).
- Contents:
- 1. Writing About Romans at War Jeremy Armstrong and Michael P. Fronda 2. The Institutionalization of Warfare in Early Rome Fred K. Drogula 3. The Price of Expansion: Agriculture, debt-dependency, and warfare during the rise of the Republic, c. 450-287 Peter VanDerPuy 4. The Dilectus-Tributum System and the Settlement of Fourth Century Italy James Tan 5. Organized Chaos: Manipuli, Socii, and the Roman Army c. 300 Jeremy Armstrong 6. Poor Man's War
- Rich Man's Fight: Military Integration in Republican Rome Marian Helm 7. "Take the Sword Away From That Girl!" Combat, Gender, and Vengeance in the Middle Republic John Serrati 8. The Middle Republican Soldier and Systems of Social Distinction Kathryn H. Milne 9. Uncovering a "Lost Generation" in the Senate: Demography and the Hannibalic War Cary Barber 10. Titus Quinctius Flamininus' "Italian Triumph" Michael P. Fronda 11. Ager Publicus: Land as a Spoil of War in the Roman Republic Saskia T. Roselaar 12. The Manipular Army System and Command Decisions in the Second Century Jeremiah McCall 13. Anecdotal History and the Social War Jessica H. Clark 14. SPQR SNAFU: Indiscipline and Internal Conflict in the Late Republic Lee L. Brice 15. From Slave to Citizen: The Lessons of Servius Tullius Jack Wells 16. The Transformation of the Roman Army in the Last Decades of the Republic François Gauthier 17. Epilogue Nathan Rosenstein
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed October 7, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781351063500
- 1351063502
- 9781351063487
- 1351063480
- 9781351063494
- 1351063499
- 9781351063470
- 1351063472
- Publisher Number:
- 99983107665
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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