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

by Austin,N. J. E.

• ISBN13: 9780415183017
• ISBN10: 0415183014
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Exploratiois the first survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. N.J.E. Austin and N.B. Rankov investigate how intelligence was gathered in the Roman Empire, in the long term to help formulate strategy, and in the short term for tactical reasons. The book discusses who gathered it and for whom, and how their methods grew in sophistication over the six centuries from the outbreak of the Second Punic War in 218 BC to the Battle of Adrianople in AD 378.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi	(1)
List of Plates	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(2)
Abbreviations	xi
1 INTRODUCTION: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL	1	(11)
2 THE HOSTILE HORIZON: STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE	12	(27)
3 MAKING CONTACT: TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE	39	(48)
4 GROPING TOWARDS EMPIRE: THE REPUBLIC	87	(22)
5 THE VIEW FROM ROME: THE EMPEROR'S PERSPECTIVE	109	(33)
6 FACING FACTS: THE GOVERNOR AND HIS OFFICIUM	142	(28)
7 THE WATCH ON THE FRONTIER: THE GOVERNOR'S PERSPECTIVE	170	(15)
8 BRIDGING THE GAP: EMPERORS ON THE FRONTIERS	185	(29)
9 HIERARCHIES OF INTELLIGENCE: THE FOURTH CENTURY	214	(30)
10 FULL CYCLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROMAN INTELLIGENCE	244	(12)
Notes	256	(7)
Bibliography	263	(6)
General Index	269	(16)
Index of Sources	285