1st Edition
Romans at War Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic
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
Biography
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).
