This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative

This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative

National armies, as we know them today, are a comparatively recent development. It has been assumed that the Romans had an army similar to the national institut

Scholars, military men, and casual observers alike have devoted significant energy to understanding how the armies of the Roman Middle Republic (300 – 100 BCE

Takes the career of Spurius Ligustinus, detailed by the Roman historian Livy, as a focus, giving a very human and empathetic approachability to the author’s l