Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Maps 1. Political Science and Roman History 2. Realist Paradigms of Interstate Behavior 3. The Anarchic Structure of Interstate Relations in Classical Greece 4. The Anarchic Structure of Interstate Relations in Hellenistic Age 5. Terrores Multi: The Rivals of Rome for Power in Italy and the Western Mediterranean 6. Rome and Roman Militarism within the Anarchic Interstate System 7. Roman Exceptionalism and Nonexceptionalism Appendix to Chapter 6: Roman Commanding Generals Killed in Battle with Foreign Enemies, 340s-140s BC Bibliography Index

About the Author

Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius and Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C., both from UC Press.

Reviews

"As a classicist, I read [Eckstein's] book with delight... I hope that this book will stimulate the production of other similarly sophisticated studies."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Bmcr)