01-26-2015, 07:33 PM
Try R. Ross Holloway's The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium, G. Forsythe's Livy and Early Rome, and G.B. Miles' Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome. The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2: The Rise of Rome to 220 BC remains essential, as do the commentaries on Livy by Ogilvie (bks 1-5) and Oakley (bks 6-10). For the early Roman conquests in Central and Southern Italy, W.V. Harris' Rome in Etruria and Umbria (Oxford 1971) and E.T. Salmon's Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge 1967) are excellent. A.J. Toynbee's Hannibal's Legacy, vol. 1 (London 1965), remains stimulating on early Roman militarism and expansion.
On military organisation and warrior culture in Archaic Central Italy see B. D’Agostino, ‘Military Organisation and Social Structure in Archaic Etruria’ in O. Murray & S. Price (eds), The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander (Oxford 1990), 59-82; L. Rawlings, ‘Condottieri and Clansmen: Early Italian Raiding, Warfare and the State’ in K. Hopwood (ed.), Organised Crime in Antiquity (Cardiff 1999), 97-127; J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts, 172-192.
You may also be interested in my notes on Etruscan and Faliscan military equipment and early pila.
Cheers,
On military organisation and warrior culture in Archaic Central Italy see B. D’Agostino, ‘Military Organisation and Social Structure in Archaic Etruria’ in O. Murray & S. Price (eds), The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander (Oxford 1990), 59-82; L. Rawlings, ‘Condottieri and Clansmen: Early Italian Raiding, Warfare and the State’ in K. Hopwood (ed.), Organised Crime in Antiquity (Cardiff 1999), 97-127; J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts, 172-192.
You may also be interested in my notes on Etruscan and Faliscan military equipment and early pila.
Cheers,
