Unit Cohesion and Warfare in the Ancient World: Military and Social Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781138045859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

LOUIS RAWLINGS

Opis

This book explores unit cohesion in ancient armies using military and social approaches, and how this contributed to the making of war in the Mediterranean world. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient warfare, military history, and military studies.

Spis treści

Unit Cohesion in the Ancient World – An Introduction, Joshua R. Hall; 1. The Eager Amateur: Unit Cohesion and the Athenian Hoplite Phalanx, Roel Konijnendijk; 2. The Rhodian Slingers in Xenophon’s Anabasis, C.W. Marshall; 3. Keeping It Together: Aeneas Tacticus and Unit Cohesion in Ancient Greek Siege Warfare, Aimee Schofield; 4. ‘Once Within the Gates’: Storming Cities and Unit Cohesion in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare, Gabriel Baker; 5. Unit Cohesion in the Multi-Ethnic Armies of Carthage, Joshua R. Hall and Louis Rawlings; 6. Roman Standards and Trumpets as Implements of Cohesion in Battle, Adam Anders; 7. The Legionary Standards as a Means of Religious Cohesion, Ben Greet; 8. Looking for Unit Cohesion at the End of Antiquity, Conor Whately; 9. ‘They Were Routed’: Cohesion and Disintegration in Ancient Battle, Louis Rawlings.