Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Roman conquest of Italy -- Fear, greed and glory: the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic -- Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities -- Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic -- Roman poetry and anti-militarism -- The end of Roman imperial expansion -- Roman peace -- Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication -- War and diplomacy: Rome and Parthia, 31 BC AD 235 -- Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate -- The end of the Roman army in the western empire -- Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire -- Index.