War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals - Hardcover

Armstrong, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107093570 ISBN 13: 9781107093577

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Jeremy Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. He has published on various aspects of early Roman history, archaeology and warfare, including two edited volumes: Rituals of Triumph (2013) and Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare (forthcoming).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107093570
• ISBN 13: 9781107093577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 332