{"title":"Deconstructing Disciplina: Disentangling Ancient and Modern Ideologies of Military Discipline in the Middle Republic","authors":"D. Machado","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2021.0013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article challenges the idea, presented by both ancient and modern writers, that the armies of the Middle Republic were governed by a clearly articulated ideology of discipline. I contend that the notion of an all-encompassing system of military discipline is a fiction created by a variety of interconnected and historically-constructed intellectual genealogies by examining the two most important sources for the discipline of Middle Republican army, Polybius and Livy, and the reception of their ideas in post-Renaissance Europe.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2021.0013","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:This article challenges the idea, presented by both ancient and modern writers, that the armies of the Middle Republic were governed by a clearly articulated ideology of discipline. I contend that the notion of an all-encompassing system of military discipline is a fiction created by a variety of interconnected and historically-constructed intellectual genealogies by examining the two most important sources for the discipline of Middle Republican army, Polybius and Livy, and the reception of their ideas in post-Renaissance Europe.
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Founded in 1880, American Journal of Philology (AJP) has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today, the Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as a forum for international exchange among classicists and philologists by publishing original research in classical literature, philology, linguistics, history, society, religion, philosophy, and cultural and material studies. Book review sections are featured in every issue. AJP is open to a wide variety of contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches, including literary interpretation and theory, historical investigation, and textual criticism.