Unit Cohesion and Warfare in the Ancient World

Joshua R. Hall is a part-time faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, OR, USA. He studies war and social formation in the ancient world, and is the author of The Armies of Carthage (Pen & Sword).Louis Rawlings is senior lecturer in ancient history at Cardiff University. He has published extensively on Carthaginian, Greek, and Roman history. He is the author of The Ancient Greeks at War (University of Manchester Press).

• 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.

"The book is a welcome addition to the literature considering psychological aspects of the ancient military, and it does a good job of relating the abstract concept of unit cohesion to its impact on the battlefield." - The Classical Review