Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

Drogula, Fred K.

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“… 1 Cornell (2000); Bleckmann (2002); Hölkeskamp (2004); Jehne and Pfeilschifter (2006); Beck et al (2011); Stek and Pelgrom (2014). On the early Roman military: Pfeilschifter (2007); Kent (2012a); Drogula (2015); Armstrong (2016). …”

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A Troubled Beginning: Rome and its Reluctant Allies in the Fourth Centurybc

Helm¹

2017

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This article examines the origins of the Roman alliance system in the second half of the 4th century. The significance of the allies for the creation of a Mediterranean empire is undisputed; allied troops provided the Roman Republic with a manpower reservoir unmatched by any of its opponents. However, the stunning achievement of incorporating defeated foes into the military in equal numbers to Roman troops has been somewhat neglected and been taken as a given fact. A careful analysis of the years following the Latin War and the Samnite Wars reveals a constellation which does not suggest that the immediate creation of a more or less beneficial system of alliances was a primary Roman objective. Instead it will be argued that the evidence indicates a rather different development, where the challenge of organising and integrating the captured territory was a dynamic and at times arduous process, for which the setbacks – and indeed the crisis – of the so-called Second Samnite War served as a major catalyst.

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“…The leading out of citizen colonies/outposts to Antium and Terracina (and possibly Ostia), as well as the excavations at La Giostra, could indeed point to attempts to fortify the new territory: see Moltesen and Brandt (1994) 139-53. See Drogula (2015) 21 on the fortifications within Roman territory mentioned by Dion. Hal.…”

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2017

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“… 67 See, e.g., Wiseman (1979) 42-5; Cornell (2005) 59-60; Richardson (2008) 330-3; Drogula (2015) 2-4. …”

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“… 73 Given the many problems, the bibliography on the consular tribunate is considerable; see, e.g., von Fritz (1950) 37-41; Staveley (1953); Adcock (1957); Boddington (1959); Sealey (1959); Ogilvie (1965) 539-41; Ridley (1986); Drummond (1989) 192-5; Richard (1990) and (1992); Sohlberg (1991); La Rosa (1994); Cornell (1995) 334-9; Walt (1997) 313-18; Stewart (1998) 53-94; Brennan (2000) 49-54; Forsythe (2005) 234-9; Urso (2005) 123-34; Oakley (1997-2005) 1.367-76, 4.502-7, with discussion of a range of further views; Ross Holloway (2008); Drogula (2015) 25-7; Armstrong (2016) 192-9, 210-11. …”

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“…A steady increase in numbers would make this explanation more plausible. Drogula (2015) 37 suggests that increasing competition was responsible for the growth in numbers (cf., however, p. 26), but that does not explain the fluctuation either, and competition never affected the number of consuls elected, which was kept at two, even when the number of praetors increased. Not surprisingly, procrustean solutions have been entertained, cf.…”

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The Roman Nobility, the Early ConsularFasti, and the Consular Tribunate

Richardson

2017

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While the general absence of Rome’s nobility from the traditions of the regal period has often been noted, the nobility’s prompt appearance at the beginning of the republican period has elicited little comment. This paper argues that the nobility’s appearance is more significant than its earlier absence, precisely on account of its very promptness and also because the nobility appears primarily with the consulship. Given the special importance that the consulship later came to have, following the emergence of Rome’s office-holding nobility, these circumstances inevitably raise questions about the value of the early consular fasti, and indeed even about the whole premise on which the early fasti are based, namely that the consulship was established immediately after the expulsion of the kings. It is argued here that this premise is anachronistic, and that the early consular fasti are unreliable and often tendentious; it is further argued that this premise is also responsible for some of the confusion surrounding the mysterious consular tribunate. The consular tribunate was a magistracy about which ancient writers quite clearly knew very little, and their ignorance and the inconsistencies in what they had to say about the tribunate inevitably undermine their claim to possess better and more detailed information about earlier times.

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Coudry¹

2022

A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic

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Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

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A Troubled Beginning: Rome and its Reluctant Allies in the Fourth Centurybc

A Troubled Beginning: Rome and its Reluctant Allies in the Fourth Centurybc

The Roman Nobility, the Early ConsularFasti, and the Consular Tribunate

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