LIST 1:  ROMAN IMPERIAL MILITARY FORCES

Bibliography [not for review] 

Ferrill, Arther.  Roman Imperial Strategy.  Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 3.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 1991.

Sarantis, Alexander, and Neil Christie, eds. War and Warfare in Late Antiquity. 2 vols. (vol. 1 is a bibliographical review). Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Wheeler. Everett L.  “Methodological Limits and the Mirage of Roman Strategy.”  The Journal of Roman Military History 57 (1993):  7-41 and 215-40. [available on line in the TTU Library via JSTOR]

Whittaker, C.R. “Where Are the Frontiers Now?”  In The Roman Army in the East.  Edited by D.L. Kennedy.  Ann Arbor, MI:  Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1996.  Pp. 25-41. 

Primary Sources

Ammianus Marcellinus.  History.  Translated by John C. Rolfe.  3 vols.  Loeb Classical Library.  Cambridge, MA.:  Harvard University Press, 1950-52.  Read vol. 3 (Books XXVII-XXXI).

Anon.  De Rebus Bellicis.  Edited by Mark W. C. Hassall and Robert I. Ireland.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1979. 

[Assorted Commentaries]  Dodgeon, Michael H., and Samuel N. C. Lieu.  The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, AD 226-363:  A Documentary History.  New York:  Routledge, 1994.

[Fragmentary Records from Hadrian’s Wall] Bowman, Alan K.  Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier:  Vindolanda and Its People.  New York:  Routledge, 1998.

[Fragmentary Records from Egypt]  Fink, Robert O., ed.  Roman Military Records on Papyrus.  Philological Monographs of the American Philological Association 26.  Cleveland:  Case Western Reserve University, 1971.

[Technological Works.]  Greek and Roman Artillery:  Technical Treatises.  Edited by E. W. Marsden.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1971.

Vegetius. Epitome of Military Science.  Translated by N. P. Milner.  Translated Texts for Historians Series 16.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.  [not for review] 

Vegetius. Epitoma Rei Militaris. Edited by M. D. Reeeve. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 2004.  [not for review] 

Secondary Sources

Ash, Rhiannon.  Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus’ Histories.  London, Duckworth,1999.

Bishop, M. C., and J. C. N. Coulston.  Roman Military Equipment: From the Punic Wars to the Fall of the Empire.  London:  Batsford, 1993.

Austin, N. J. E.  Ammianus on Warfare:  An Investigation into Ammianus’ Military Knowledge.  Collection Latomus 165.  Brussels:  Latomus, 1979.

Burns, Thomas S.  Barbarians within the Gates of Rome:  A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 AD.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1994.

Campbell, J. B.  The Emperor and the Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 235.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1984.

Cherry, David.  Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Dillon, Sheila, and Katherine E. Welch, eds.  Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Elton, Hugh.  Frontiers of the Roman Empire.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1996.

Elton, Hugh.  Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425.  Oxford Classical Monographs. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1997.

Ferrill, Arther.  The Fall of the Roman Empire:  The Military Explanation.  New York:  Thames and Hudson, 1986.                                        

Griess, Thomas E., ed. Ancient and Medieval Warfare.  The West Point Military History Series, 1984.

Haynes, Ian P. Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Isaac, Benjamin H.  The Limits of Empire:  The Roman Army in the East.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.

Isaac, Benjamin H. The Near East under Roman Rule.  New York:  Brill, 1998.

Johnson, Anne.  Roman Forts of the First and Second Century AD in Britain and the German Provinces.  New York:  St. Martin’s, 1983.

Johnson, Stephen.  Late Roman Fortifications.  Totowa, NJ:  Barnes and Noble, 1983.

Kern, Paul Bentley.  Ancient Siege Warfare.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1999.

Lendon, J.E.  Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2005. 

Levithan. Josh. Roman Siege Warfare. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Liebeschuetz, John H. W. G.  Barbarians and Bishops:  Army, Church, and State in the Reign of Arcadius and Chrysostom.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1990.

Luttwak, Edward N.  The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire:  From the First Century A.D. to the Third.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

MacGeorge, Penny.  Late Roman Warlords.  Oxford Classical Monographs.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Marsden, Eric W.  Greek and Roman Artillery:  Historical Development.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1969.

Mattern, Susan P.  Rome and the Enemy. Imperial Strategy in the Principate.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

McCall, Jeremiah B.  The Cavalry of the Roman Republic:  Cavalry Combat and Elite Reputations in the Middle and Late Republic.  New York: Routledge, 2002.

Murdoch, Adrian.  Rome's Greatest Defeat. Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest.  Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2006.

Pollard, Nigel.  Soldiers, Cities, and Civilians in Roman Syria.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 

Raaflaub, Kurt A., and Nathan Rosenstein, eds.  War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica.  Cambridge, MA : Center for Hellenic Studies, 1999.

Rich, John, and Graham Shipley, eds.  War and Society in the Roman World.  New York:  Routledge, 1993.                            

Roth, Jonathan P.  The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. – A.D. 235). Leiden: Brill, 1998.

Salazar, Christine F.  The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Leiden:  Brill, 2000.

Southern, Pat and Karen Ramsey Dixon.  The Late Roman Army.  New Haven:  Yale University Press / London: B. T. Batsford, 1996.

Stephenson, Ian. P.  Roman Infantry Equipment:  The Later Empire.  Stroud:  Tempus, 2001.

Watson, George Ronald.  The Roman Soldier.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 1969.

Whittaker, C. Richard.  Frontiers of the Roman Empire:  A Social and Economic Study.  Ancient Society and History.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.