War and Society in The Roman World

Edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley. [Papers from a series of seminars held in Leicester and Nottingham between 1988 and 1990].

The central theme of the volume is the shifting relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body. The dominant role of war in Roman life under the Republic is examined, together with the related themes of Roman expansion and its consequences for both the Romans and those they conquered. With contributions by Stephen Oakley, John Rich, Adam Ziolkowski et al. XI,315 Seiten, gebunden (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society; Vol. 5/Routledge 1993) textsauber, leichte Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use