War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals

by Jeremy Armstrong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107474558
• ISBN13: 9781107474550
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"