Socii War

[Bryan]

Can anyone recommend a good book about the Socii/Marsic War?

[John W Davison]

This is good, "Rome & The Unification of Italy":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unification-Bris...n+of+italy

Same author's "Sulla" probably also relevant:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sulla-Last-Repub...090&sr=1-1

It's a long time since I read it, but "The Making of Roman italy" would have some useful material:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Roman-Ita...206&sr=1-3

Still sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, the relevant volume in the new Edinburgh UP series on the history of Rome is "The End of the Roman Republic 146-44BC" which was only published in 2013 so is very recent:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Roman-Republ...559&sr=1-3

Unfortunately the relevant volumes in both the Blackwell and Routledge "History of the Ancient World" series are yet to appear.

Regards,
John

[Bryan]

Thank you for the suggestions.

[Lyceum]

I really enjoyed Emilio Gabba's (1976) Escercito e Societa nella tarda repubblica Romana (Florence), which was a collection of his papers I believe which included a lot on this from a military perspective, which you might be interested in. I think some of these were translated, or the book itself, into English. I know at least of a German translation. So if you search for Gabba? I don't know, its good and old so you might find it cheap or in libraries.

[Timianus]

"Rubicon" has some good background info on the social wars (more focused on the fall of the republic though)