Romans at War

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).

1. Writing About Romans at War 2. The Institutionalization of Warfare in Early Rome 3. The Price of Expansion: Agriculture, debt-dependency, and warfare during the rise of the Republic, c. 450-287 4. The Dilectus-Tributum System and the Settlement of Fourth Century Italy 5. Organized Chaos: Manipuli, Socii, and the Roman Army c. 300 6. Poor Man’s War -- Rich Man’s Fight: Military Integration in Republican Rome 7. "Take the Sword Away From That Girl!" Combat, Gender, and Vengeance in the Middle Republic 8. The Middle Republican Soldier and Systems of Social Distinction 9. Uncovering a "Lost Generation" in the Senate: Demography and the Hannibalic War 10. Titus Quinctius Flamininus’ "Italian Triumph" 11. Ager Publicus: Land as a Spoil of War in the Roman Republic 12. The Manipular Army System and Command Decisions in the Second Century 13. Anecdotal History and the Social War 14. SPQR SNAFU: Indiscipline and Internal Conflict in the Late Republic 15. From Slave to Citizen: The Lessons of Servius Tullius 16. The Transformation of the Roman Army in the Last Decades of the Republic 17. Epilogue