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

Dr. Roel Konijnendijk section on the Athenian army is pretty interesting and building on the work of Jason Crowley in The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. The chapter explores way the Athenian levy achieved some level of unit cohesion despite the pretty poor level of organization it had, a proper way to think of the Athenian levy is to pretty much envision a mass of normal people armed with spears and shields with almost non-existent training.