Spare No One

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables

Acknowledgments

1 “As Is the Roman Custom”: War and Mass Violence in the Roman Republic, Third and Second Centuries BCE 1

2 “Adorned with Scars”: Roman Military and Political History to 146 BCE 1

3 “What the Fire Could Not Consume”: Methods of Mass Violence 3

4 “The Ram Has Hammered at Their Walls”: The Logic of Mass Violence 6

5 “Deterred by Fear”: Defection and Deterrence in the Second Punic War 8

6 “So Much Destruction and Utter Ruin”: Politics and Pragmatism in the Third Macedonian War

7 “He Soaked Spanish Soil with Blood”: Failure and Frustration in the Lusitanian War

8 Conclusion

Appendix 1. 124 Cases of Mass Violence in Roman Warfare, c. 400–100 BCE

Appendix 2. 181 Cases of Mass Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare (excluding Rome), c. 500–100 BCE

Appendix 3. The Government and Army in the Middle Republic

Bibliography

Index

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