Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate

COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
DEDICATION......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
GENERAL INTRODUCTION......Page 19
Theorizing Disciplina: Social Conflict, Legitimation, and Power......Page 25
Disciplina and Punishment......Page 26
Disciplining Wealth: The Ideologies of Stipendia and Donativa......Page 27
Feasts of Mass Destruction: Disciplina and Austerity......Page 28
SOCIAL HIERARCHY AND POTENTIAL CONFLICT......Page 31
A MARXIST VIEW OF THE ROMAN MILITARY......Page 38
MAX WEBER AND THE ROMAN ARMY......Page 39
Charisma and Routinization in the Roman Army......Page 40
The Roman Army as a Legal-Rational Bureaucracy......Page 43
The Roman Army as a Patrimonial Bureaucracy......Page 45
ALTHUSSER AND IDEOLOGY......Page 47
BOURDIEU: IMPROVISATION, AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE......Page 48
DISCIPLINA AND ABJECTION......Page 52
CONCLUSION......Page 53
2 COMBAT TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE......Page 55
TRAINING THE ROMAN ARMY......Page 56
PHYSICAL AND COMBAT TRAINING......Page 59
THE TRAINING OF DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE ARMY......Page 62
THE PRODUCTION OF AND THE RISK OF FEROCIA......Page 64
MASS FORMATIONS: A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION......Page 67
INFANTRY FORMATION: ACIES AND AGMEN......Page 71
FORMATION AS SPECTACLE AND AS DISCIPLINE......Page 76
KEEPING TOGETHER IN TIME: THE QUESTION OF MILITARY MUSIC......Page 79
THE CONTROL OF SOLDIERS IN BATTLE......Page 82
CASTRAMETATION......Page 85
CONCLUSION......Page 88
INTRODUCTION......Page 91
RECRUITING ROMAN SOLDIERS......Page 95
NOT UNIFORM BUT ARMOR MAKES THE MAN......Page 99
ETIQUETTE......Page 104
DISCIPLINA AND MASCULINE: HABITUS......Page 110
VIRI MILITARES......Page 113
UPRIGHT HABITUS......Page 118
ARMOR AND THE BURDEN OF EMPIRE......Page 123
CONCLUSION......Page 126
INTRODUCTION......Page 129
THE PRESTIGE OF ARCHAIC SEVERITAS......Page 131
IMPERIUM MILITIAE......Page 133
SACRAMENTUM MILITIAE......Page 135
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF INDIVIDUALS......Page 138
DECIMATION......Page 141
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT......Page 147
EMPERORS AND JURISTS......Page 149
THE JURISTS AND MILITARY PUNISHMENTS......Page 153
SHAMING PUNISHMENTS......Page 158
DEMOTION, DISCHARGE, AND DISBANDMENT......Page 161
LEGAL STATUS AND FORMAL DISGRACE......Page 163
ADMINISTRATIVE RATIONALITY......Page 165
CONCLUSION......Page 168
INTRODUCTION......Page 171
SOLDIERS AND WEALTH......Page 173
RESTRAINING PLUNDER......Page 175
THE LATE REPUBLIC IN IMPERIAL TRADITION......Page 178
THEE AERARIUM MILITARE AND PRAEMIA......Page 181
STIPENDIA......Page 184
DEDUCTIONS FROM STLPENDLA......Page 189
EXTRAMURAL AND ILLEGITIMATE INCOME......Page 192
RECOGNIZING SOLDIERS\' WEALTH IN LAW......Page 196
DONATIVA: THE POLITICS OF GENEROSITY......Page 197
THE ROUTINIZATION OF DONATIVA......Page 200
DONATIVA AS MUTUAL EXCHANGES......Page 203
DISCIPLINA RATHER THAN BENEFICLA......Page 207
COINAGE AND DONATIVES......Page 211
THE ORNAMENTS OF VIRTUS......Page 215
CONCLUSION......Page 217
INTRODUCTION......Page 219
ROMAN WORK-DISCIPLINE......Page 220
AWAY FROM THE STANDARDS:COMMEATUS AND OTHER ABSENCES......Page 227
CHRONOLOGICAL ORIENTATION......Page 231
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: SARCINA......Page 235
MILITARY LABOR IN THE SYMBOLIC ECONOMY......Page 237
MILITARY LABOR AS SOCIAL CONTROL......Page 239
SOLDIER AND SLAVE DISCIPLINE......Page 245
SOLDIERS AND MENIAL LABOR......Page 248
SOLDIERS\' SERVANTS......Page 252
SOLDIERS\' RESISTANCE......Page 255
MASTER OR COMMANDER......Page 257
THE ASSOCIATION OF LABOR AND VIRTUS......Page 260
CONCLUSION......Page 264
INTRODUCTION......Page 267
QUALIFYING \"AUSTERITY\"......Page 271
CONTROLLING PATRONAGE......Page 274
ELATION: NIMLA VICTORIAE FIDUCIA......Page 275
MEDICAL EFFECTS: DRUNKENNESS AND INCAPACITATION......Page 277
MEDICAL EFFECTS: FOOD......Page 282
THE COLLAPSE OF DISCIPLINED HABITUS......Page 285
DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR......Page 289
AUSTERITY AS COMMENSALITY......Page 294
A PUNITIVE MODEL OF AUSTERITY......Page 297
AUSTERITY AND THE BODY POLITIC......Page 300
CONCLUSION......Page 301
THE RATIONALITY OF DISCIPLINE......Page 303
CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE......Page 306
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 309
INDEX......Page 339