Z Afganistanu pod Filippi, czyli rzecz o standardach badawczych. [Rec. Steele Brand, „Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War”]
From Afghanistan to Philippi, or about the research standards. [Rev. Steele Brand, „Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War”, Baltimore 2019]

Summary/Abstract: This review article deals with Steele Brand’s monograph devoted to the motivation of the Republican Roman soldiers in the context of the idea of citizen soldiery and civic militarism. From the reviewer’s perspective it is a starting point to illustrate a broader tendency, manifested in the graduał relegation of military issues to the margins of academic life, which is reflected in re-linking them with military institutions. Military academies were not established to conduct classical or even historical studies, and their primary goal is to educate officers, so this may lead to historiographical deformations resulting from ignorance of socio-cultural conditions.

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