Roman Military Service - Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Informationen zum Autor Sara Elise Phang is a scholar of Roman history and author of The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 BC-AD 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army! which won the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities in Classical Studies. Klappentext Sara Phang explores the ideals and realities of Roman military discipline. Zusammenfassung In this book! Sara Phang explores the ideals and realities of Roman military discipline! using both literary and documentary sources. Contrary to the impression that Roman emperors 'bought' their soldiers and indulged them! discipline restrained such behaviour and legitimized and stabilized the imperial power! while earning such leaders prestige. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Theorizing discipline: social conflict, legitimation, and power; 2. Combat training and discipline; 3. Viri militares: habitus and discipline; 4. Disciplina and punishment; 5. Disciplining wealth: the ideologies of stipendia and donativa; 6. Labor militaris: work as discipline; 7. Feasts of mass destruction: disciplina and austerity.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Phang, Sara E. Phang, Sara Elise Phang, Sara Elise (Dr) Phang
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521882699
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88269-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity