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War and society in the Roman world / edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley.

Other author/creatorRich, John, 1944-
Other author/creatorShipley, Graham.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Descriptionxi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5
Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5. ^A244525
Contents The Roman conquest of Italy / Stephen Oakley -- Fear, greed and glory : the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic / John Rich -- Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities / Adam Ziolkowski -- Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic / John Patterson -- Roman poetry and anti-militarism / Duncan Cloud -- The end of Roman imperial expansion / Tim Cornell -- Roman peace / Greg Woolf -- Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication / David Braund -- War and diplomacy : Rome and Parthia, 31 BC-AD 235 / Brian Campbell -- Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate / Harry Sidebottom -- The end of the Roman army in the western empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire / Dick Whittaker.
General noteSelected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, 1988-1990.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92036698
ISBN0415066441

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Joyner General Stacks U35 .W34 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold