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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454951803321

Titolo

War and society in the Roman world / / edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-91991-3

1-280-32890-8

9786610328901

0-203-07554-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

RichJohn <1944->

ShipleyGraham

Disciplina

355/.00937

Soggetti

Military art and science - Rome - History

Sociology, Military - Rome - History

Electronic books.

Rome History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, 1988-1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Roman conquest of Italy; Fear, greed and glory: the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic; Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities; Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic; Roman poetry and anti-militarism; The end of Roman imperial expansion; Roman peace; Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication; War and diplomacy: Rome and Parthia, 31 BC  AD 235; Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate

The end of the Roman army in the western empireLandlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to



professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure.