War and society in the Roman world / edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley.

The Roman conquest of Italy / Stephen Oakley -- Fear, greed and glory : the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic / John Rich -- Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities / Adam Ziolkowski -- Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic / John Patterson -- Roman poetry andanti-militarism / Duncan Cloud -- The end of Roman imperial expansion / Tim Cornell -- Roman peace / Greg Woolf -- Piracy under the principate and the ideologyof imperial eradication / David Braund -- War and diplomacy : Rome and Parthia,31 BC-AD 235 / Brian Campbell -- Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate / Harry Sidebottom -- The end of the Roman army in the western empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire / Dick Whittaker.

Selected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, 1988-1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.