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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 BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars
in the area of Roman military studies to engage with subjects such
as the relationship between warfare and economic and demographic
regimes; the interplay of war, aristocratic politics, and state
formation; and the complex role the military played in the
integration of Italy. The book demonstrates the centrality of war
to Rome's internal and external relationships during the Republic,
as well as to the Romans' sense of identity and history. It also
illustrates the changing scholarly view of warfare as a social and
cultural construct in antiquity, and how much work remains to be
done in what is often thought of as a "traditional" area of
research. Romans at War will be of interest to students and
scholars of the Roman army and ancient warfare, and of Roman
society more broadly.
While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most
study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period
when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr
Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military might
from its earliest discernible origins down to the First Punic War.
He shows how her armies evolved from ad-hoc forces of warriors
organized along clan lines and assembled for the city's survival,
to the sophisticated organization of the legions that went on to
dominate all of Italy and then (after the period covered) the
entire Mediterranean world. The author reviews both the literary
sources and the latest archaeological evidence to provide a fresh
analysis of Roman military organization, equipment, tactics and
strategy. He shows how Rome's military apparatus adapted to meet
the changing strategic needs of new enemies and broader ambitions.
This study of the origins of the Classical world's most formidable
war machine will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in
Classical, and especially Roman, military history.
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 BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars
in the area of Roman military studies to engage with subjects such
as the relationship between warfare and economic and demographic
regimes; the interplay of war, aristocratic politics, and state
formation; and the complex role the military played in the
integration of Italy. The book demonstrates the centrality of war
to Rome's internal and external relationships during the Republic,
as well as to the Romans' sense of identity and history. It also
illustrates the changing scholarly view of warfare as a social and
cultural construct in antiquity, and how much work remains to be
done in what is often thought of as a "traditional" area of
research. Romans at War will be of interest to students and
scholars of the Roman army and ancient warfare, and of Roman
society more broadly.
While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most
study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period
when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr.
Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military might
from its earliest discernible origins down to the First Punic War.
He shows how her armies evolved from ad hoc forces of warriors
organized along clan lines to the sophisticated organization of the
legions that went on to dominate all of Italy. Reassessing both the
literary sources and the latest archaeological evidence to provide
a fresh analysis of Roman military organization, equipment,
tactics, and strategy, he shows how Rome's military apparatus
adapted to meet the changing strategic needs of new enemies and
broader ambitions.
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers eleven papers
analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the
monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in
antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and
states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these
aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of
coined money – typically with unintended consequences. These
complex relationships between money, warfare and political power
– both personal and collective – are explored across different
cultures and socio-political systems around the ancient
Mediterranean, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe.
This volume is also a tribute to the life and impact of Professor
Matthew Trundle, an inspiring teacher and scholar, who was devoted
to promoting the discipline of Classics in New Zealand and beyond.
At the time of his death, he was writing a book on the wider
importance of money in the Greek world. A central piece of this
research is incorporated into this volume, completed by one of his
former students, Christopher De Lisle. Additionally, Trundle had
situated himself at the centre of a wide-ranging conversation on
the nature of money and power in antiquity. The contributions of
scholars of ancient monetization in this volume bring together many
of the threads of those conversions, further advancing a field
which Matthew Trundle had worked so tirelessly to promote.
This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition
for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to
present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it
related to the city's various social, political, religious, and
economic institutions. Largely casting aside the anachronistic
assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of
Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour
evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period
and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the
basic form of Roman society and then to 're-map' that on to the
extant tradition. It will be important for scholars and students
studying many aspects of Roman history and warfare, but
particularly the history of the regal and republican periods.
This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition
for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to
present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it
related to the city's various social, political, religious, and
economic institutions. Largely casting aside the anachronistic
assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of
Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour
evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period
and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the
basic form of Roman society and then to 're-map' that on to the
extant tradition. It will be important for scholars and students
studying many aspects of Roman history and warfare, but
particularly the history of the regal and republican periods.
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