Exploratio: Military & Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople

by N.B. Rankov, N.J.E. Austin, N. B. Rankov, et al.

Book Overview

Exploratio is the first ever survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. The authors examine in detail the operation and gradual development of Roman intelligence-gathering from shaky beginnings to a high level of excellence. They identify who gathered it, and for whom.
This study shows the effects of intelligence on policy formation at various levels from the purely local through to the global. The consequences of various instances of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415183014
• ISBN13: 9780415183017
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary