文档介绍：Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Volume 5
WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE
ROMAN WORLD
WAR AND SOCIETY IN
THE ROMAN WORLD
Edited by
JOHN RICH and GRAHAM SHIPLEY
London and New York
First published 1993
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge Inc.
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1993 John Rich, Graham Shipley and individual contributors
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
War and society in the Roman world/edited by John Rich and
Graham Shipley.
p. cm.—(Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society; v. 5)
Selected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars
sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham
Universities, 1988–1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Military art and science—Rome—History. 2. Rome—History,
Military. 3. Sociology, Military—Rome—History. I. Rich, John.
II. Shipley, Graham. III. Series.
1993
355′.00937–dc20 92–36698
ISBN 0-203-07554-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-22120-6 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-06644-1 (Print Edition)
Contents
List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors viii
Preface ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
JOHN RICH
1 The Roman conquest of Italy 9
STEPHEN OAKLEY
2 Fear, greed and glory: the causes of Roman war-making
in the middle Republic 38
JOHN