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This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city's various social, political, religious, and economic institutions. Largely casting aside the anachronistic assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the basic form of Roman society and then to 're-map' that on to the extant tradition. It will be important for scholars and students studying many aspects of Roman history and warfare, but particularly the history of the regal and republican periods

This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city's various social, political, religious, and economic institutions. Largely casting aside the anachronistic assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the basic form of Roman society and then to 're-map' that on to the extant tradition. It will be important for scholars and students studying many aspects of Roman history and warfare, but particularly the history of the regal and republican periods

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of maps, figures, and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- 1 Communities and connectivities in pre-Roman Italy -- 2 Enchanted trade: technicians and the city -- 3 Metallurgy and connectivity in northern Etruria -- 4 Hephaestus' workshop: craftspeople, elites, and bronze armour in pre-Roman Italy -- 5 Potters and mobility in southern Italy (500-300 BCE) -- 6 'The potter is by nature a social animal': a producer-centred approach to regionalisation in the South Italian matt-painted tradition -- 7 Bronzesmiths and the construction of material identity in central Italy (1000-700 BCE) -- 8 The 'Bradano District' revisited: tombs, trade, and identity in interior Peucetia -- 9 Etruscan trading spaces and the tools for regulating Etruscan markets -- 10 A mobile model of cultural transfer in pre-Roman southern Italy -- 11 Mechanisms of community formation in pre-Roman Italy: a latticework of connectivity and interaction -- Epilogue: writing of connectivity at a time of isolation -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"--

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"

This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars in the area of Roman military studies to engage with subjects such as the relationship between warfare and economic and demographic regimes; the interplay of war, aristocratic politics, and state formation; and the complex role the military played in the integration of Italy. The book demonstrates the centrality of war to Rome's internal and external relationships during the Republic, as well as to the Romans' sense of identity and history. It also illustrates the changing scholarly view of warfare as a social and cultural construct in antiquity, and how much work remains to be done in what is often thought of as a "traditional" area of research. Romans at War will be of interest to students and scholars of the Roman army and ancient warfare, and of Roman society more broadly.

Front Matter /Jeremy Armstrong -- War and Society in the Ancient World: An Introduction /Jeremy Armstrong -- Simple Words, Simple Pictures: The Link between the Snapshots of Battle and the War Diary Entries in Ancient Egypt /Anthony Spalinger -- Caesar's Exempla and the Role of Centurions in Battle /David Nolan -- Coinage and the Economics of the Athenian Empire /Matthew Trundle -- Tributum in the Middle Republic /Nathan Rosenstein -- The Ties that Bind: Military Cohesion in Archaic Rome /Jeremy Armstrong -- Sacramentum Militiae: Empty Words in an Age of Chaos /Mark Hebblewhite -- Circumscribing Imperium: Power and Regulation in the Republican Province /Ralph Covino -- The Delian and Second Athenian Leagues: The Perspective of Collective Action /James Kierstead -- 'Warlordism' and the Disintegration of the Western Roman Army /Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele -- The Significance of Insignificant Engagements: Irregular Warfare during the Punic Wars /Louis Rawlings -- 'Siege Warfare' in Ancient Egypt, as Derived from Select Royal and Private Battle Scenes /Brett H. Heagren -- Tissaphernes and the Achaemenid Defense of Western Anatolia, 412–395 BC /John W.I. Lee -- Bibliography /Jeremy Armstrong -- Index /Jeremy Armstrong.

Although research consistently finds a relationship between work-family conflict and employee health, the role of health-related behaviors such as diet and exercise have been overlooked. The present research examines the links between both directions of workfamily conflict—family interference withwork (FIW) andwork interference with family (WIF)—with several health-related behaviors (physical activity, fatty food consumption, and healthy food consumption) and with multiple indicators of physical health (overall health, health disorders, and body mass). Based on a sample of 246 employed individuals, path analysis demonstrates that FIW was associated with less physical activity and with eating more high fat foods. In addition, WIF was associated with eating fewer healthy foods. Fatty food consumption related to body mass and overall health, whereas physical activity related to overall health and health disorders. The findings represent an initial step toward a better understanding of the process linkingwork-family conflict with employee physical health.

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"