Republican Rome: The Army and the Allies

Republican Rome, the Army and the Allies by Emilio Gabba is a seminal collection of essays that redefines key debates about the late Roman Republic and the emergence of the Principate. Long influential in Italian scholarship and here made available in English translation, Gabba's work examines the interplay between Rome's military system, Italian society, and the political upheavals of the first century BCE. At its core are his classic studies of the professionalization of the Roman army, i...