The Roman Revolution is one of the most momentous periods of change in historyin which an imperial but quasidemocratic power changed into an autocracy.This book... » 

The Roman Revolution is one of the most momentous periods of change in historyin which an imperial but quasidemocratic power changed into an autocracy.This book studies the way the Roman army changed in the last eighty years ofthe Republic so that an army of imperial conquest became transformed into aset of rival personal armies under the control of the triumvirs. It emphasizesthe development of what has often been regarded as a static monolithicinstitution and its centrality to political change. «