A Companion to the Roman Army

by Erdkamp, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781405121538
• ISBN10: 140512153X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Companion provides an extensive account of the Roman army, exploring its role in Roman politics and society as well as the reasons for its effectiveness as a fighting force. An extensive account of the Roman army, from its beginnings to its transformation in the later Roman Empire Examines the army as a military machine - its recruitment, training, organization, tactics and weaponry Explores the relationship of the army to Roman politics, economics and society more broadly Considers the geography and climate of the lands in which the Romans fought Each chapter is written by a leading expert in a particular subfield and takes account of the latest scholarly and archaeological research in that area.

Author Biography

Paul Erdkamp is Research Fellow in Ancient History at Leiden University. He is author of Hunger and the Sword: Warfare and Food Supply in Roman Republican Wars (264–30 BC) (1998) and The Grain Market in the Roman Empire (2005), and editor of The Roman Army and the Economy (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Abbreviations of Reference Works and Journals	p. xvii
Abbreviations of Works of Classical Literature	p. xxii
Introduction	p. 1
Early Rome	p. 5
Warfare and the Army in Early Rome	p. 7
The Army and Centuriate Organization in Early Rome	p. 24
Mid- and Late Republic	p. 43
Army and Battle During the Conquest of Italy (350-264 BC)	p. 45
The Age of Overseas Expansion (264-146 BC)	p. 63
The Late Republican Army (146-30 BC)	p. 80
War and State Formation in the Roman Republic	p. 96
Roman Manpower and Recruitment During the Middle Republic	p. 114
Military Command, Political Power, and the Republican Elite	p. 132
Colonization, Land Distribution, and Veteran Settlement	p. 148
Army and General in the Late Roman Republic	p. 164
The Empire (Actium to Adrianople)	p. 181
The Structure of the Imperial Army
The Augustan Reform and the Structure of the Imperial Army	p. 183
Classes. The Evolution of the Roman Imperial Fleets	p. 201
Battle, Tactics, and the Emergence of the Limites in the West	p. 218
The Army and the Limes in the East	p. 235
Strategy and Army Structure between Septimius Severus and Constantine the Great	p. 267
Military Organization
Military Documents, Languages, and Literacy	p. 286
Finances and Costs of the Roman Army	p. 306
War- and Peacetime Logistics: Supplying Imperial Armies in East and West	p. 323
Army, Emperor, and Empire
The Roman Army and Propaganda	p. 339
The Army and the Urban Elite: A Competition for Power	p. 359
Making Emperors. Imperial Instrument or Independent Force?	p. 379
Soldiers and Veterans in Society
Military Camps, Canabae, and Vici. The Archaeological Evidence	p. 395
Marriage, Families, and Survival: Demographic Aspects	p. 417
Recruits and Veterans	p. 435
The Religions of the Armies	p. 451
The Late Roman Empire (up to Justinian)	p. 477
Warlords and Landlords	p. 479
The Foederati	p. 495
Army and Society in the Late Roman World: A Context for Decline?	p. 515
Army and Battle in the Age of Justinian (527-65)	p. 532
Index locorum	p. 551
Index	p. 555
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