Spare no one : mass violence in Roman warfare /

Spare no one : mass violence in Roman warfare /

Provides an important corrective to our understanding of ancient warfare and our thinking about the long history of total war and terror, manifested today by ISIS, casting a new light on Roman warfare and the strategic use of total war to achieve long-term military objectives and the pacification of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Gabriel David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Series:War and society.
Subjects:
Military art and science > Rome > History.
War and society > Rome.
Rome > History, Military.
Table of Contents:
  • "As Is the Roman Custom": War and Mass Violence in the Roman Republic, Third and Second Centuries BCE
  • "Adorned with Scars": Roman Military and Political History to 146 BCE
  • "What the Fire Could Not Consume": Methods of Mass Violence
  • "The Ram Has Hammered at Their Walls": The Logic of Mass Violence
  • "Deterred by Fear": Defection and Deterrence in the Second Punic War
  • "So Much Destruction and Utter Ruin": Politics and Pragmatism in the Third Macedonian War
  • "He Soaked Spanish Soil with Blood": Failure and Frustration in the Lusitanian War.