Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
Abbreviations of Reference Works and Journals xvii
Abbreviations of Works of Classical Literature xxii
Introduction 1 Paul Erdkamp
Part I Early Rome 5
1 Warfare and the Army in Early Rome 7 John Rich
2 The Army and Centuriate Organization in Early Rome 24 Gary Forsythe
Part II Mid- and Late Republic 43
3 Army and Battle During the Conquest of Italy (350–264 BC) 45 Louis Rawlings
4 The Age of Overseas Expansion (264–146 BC) 63 Dexter Hoyos
5 The Late Republican Army (146–30 BC) 80 Pierre Cagniart
6 War and State Formation in the Roman Republic 96 Paul Erdkamp
7 Roman Manpower and Recruitment During the Middle Republic 114 Luuk de Ligt
8 Military Command, Political Power, and the Republican Elite 132 Nathan Rosenstein
9 Colonization, Land Distribution, and Veteran Settlement 148 Will Broadhead
10 Army and General in the Late Roman Republic 164 Lukas de Blois
Part III The Empire (Actium to Adrianople) 181
The Structure of the Imperial Army
11 The Augustan Reform and the Structure of the Imperial Army 183 Kate Gilliver
12 Classes. The Evolution of the Roman Imperial Fleets 201 D. B. Saddington
13 Battle, Tactics, and the Emergence of the Limites in the West 218 James Thorne
14 The Army and the Limes in the East 235 Everett L. Wheeler
15 Strategy and Army Structure between Septimius Severus and Constantine the Great 267 Karl Strobel
Military Organization
16 Military Documents, Languages, and Literacy 286 Sara Elise Phang
17 Finances and Costs of the Roman Army 306 Peter Herz
18 War- and Peacetime Logistics: Supplying Imperial Armies in East and West 323 Peter Kehne
Army, Emperor, and Empire
19 The Roman Army and Propaganda 339 Olivier Hekster
20 The Army and the Urban Elite: A Competition for Power 359 Clifford Ando
21 Making Emperors. Imperial Instrument or Independent Force? 379 Anthony R. Birley
Soldiers and Veterans in Society
22 Military Camps, Canabae, and Vici. The Archaeological Evidence 395 Norbert Hanel
23 Marriage, Families, and Survival: Demographic Aspects 417 Walter Scheidel
24 Recruits and Veterans 435 Gabriele Wesch-Klein
25 The Religions of the Armies 451 Oliver Stoll
Part IV The Late Roman Empire (up to Justinian) 477
26 Warlords and Landlords 479 Wolf Liebeschuetz
27 The Foederati 495 Timo Stickler
28 Army and Society in the Late Roman World: A Context for Decline? 515 Michael Whitby
29 Army and Battle in the Age of Justinian (527–65) 532 Hugh Elton
Index locorum 551
Index 555
