Louis Rawlings
I am Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. My research focuses on ancient warfare, but I am interested in a wide range of political and social history. I teach a broad range of courses at Cardiff.
•Introduction to Ancient History - 20 credits
•Rome and Carthage - 20 credits
•Greek Warfare - 20 credits
•Gaming Antiquity - 20 credits
•Tyrants, Kings and Democrats: the Rise of Classical Greece - 20 credits
•Pots, Poems and Pictures: Using Ancient Evidence - 20 credits
My undergraduate courses feature in the single honours BA Ancient History, BA Archaeology and Ancient History and in the Joint Honours BA programmes with Ancient History.
•Introduction to Ancient History - 20 credits
•Rome and Carthage - 20 credits
•Greek Warfare - 20 credits
•Gaming Antiquity - 20 credits
•Tyrants, Kings and Democrats: the Rise of Classical Greece - 20 credits
•Pots, Poems and Pictures: Using Ancient Evidence - 20 credits
My undergraduate courses feature in the single honours BA Ancient History, BA Archaeology and Ancient History and in the Joint Honours BA programmes with Ancient History.
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Introduction / Hugh Bowden and Louis Rawlings
1. Herakles, Herodotos and the Persian wars / Hugh Bowden
2. The family of Herakles in Attika / Michael Jameson
3. Herakles and his 'girl' : Athena, heroism and beyond / Susan Deacy
4. Herakles re-dressed : gender, clothing and the construction of a Greek hero / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
5. Vice or virtue? : Herakles and the art of allegory / Emma Stafford
6. The magic knot of Herakles, the propaganda of Alexander the Great and Tomb II at Vergina / Ann M. Nicgorski
7. Aspects of the cult of Hercules in central Italy / Guy Bradley
8. Hannibal and Hercules / Louis Rawlings
9. Hercules Furens and Nero : the didactic purpose of Senecan tragedy / Eleanor Regina O'Kell
10. Propagating power : Hercules as an example for second-century emperors / Olivier Hekster
11. The emperors' new names : Diocletian Jovius and Maximian Herculius / Roger Rees.
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Books by Louis Rawlings
Within the broader definition of ‘unit cohesion’, this volume approaches more specific aspects of military cohesion in the ancient Mediterranean world including how individual soldiers commit to one another; how armies and units are maintained through hierarchy and the ‘chain of command’; and social cohesion, in which social activities and aspects of social power help bind an army or unit together. Examples from across the ancient Mediterranean are explored in this volume, from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity, with topics such as how armies and units cohere during the sacking of cities, Roman standards as a focus of religious cohesion, and how the multi-ethnic mercenary armies of Carthage cohered. Modern approaches to social cohesion are deployed throughout, and these essays serve as an important complement to existing literature on unit cohesion more generally.
Unit Cohesion and Warfare in the Ancient World is of interest to students and scholars of ancient warfare, military history and military studies, as well as those working on the ancient Mediterranean world more broadly.
Introduction / Hugh Bowden and Louis Rawlings
1. Herakles, Herodotos and the Persian wars / Hugh Bowden
2. The family of Herakles in Attika / Michael Jameson
3. Herakles and his 'girl' : Athena, heroism and beyond / Susan Deacy
4. Herakles re-dressed : gender, clothing and the construction of a Greek hero / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
5. Vice or virtue? : Herakles and the art of allegory / Emma Stafford
6. The magic knot of Herakles, the propaganda of Alexander the Great and Tomb II at Vergina / Ann M. Nicgorski
7. Aspects of the cult of Hercules in central Italy / Guy Bradley
8. Hannibal and Hercules / Louis Rawlings
9. Hercules Furens and Nero : the didactic purpose of Senecan tragedy / Eleanor Regina O'Kell
10. Propagating power : Hercules as an example for second-century emperors / Olivier Hekster
11. The emperors' new names : Diocletian Jovius and Maximian Herculius / Roger Rees.
Within the broader definition of ‘unit cohesion’, this volume approaches more specific aspects of military cohesion in the ancient Mediterranean world including how individual soldiers commit to one another; how armies and units are maintained through hierarchy and the ‘chain of command’; and social cohesion, in which social activities and aspects of social power help bind an army or unit together. Examples from across the ancient Mediterranean are explored in this volume, from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity, with topics such as how armies and units cohere during the sacking of cities, Roman standards as a focus of religious cohesion, and how the multi-ethnic mercenary armies of Carthage cohered. Modern approaches to social cohesion are deployed throughout, and these essays serve as an important complement to existing literature on unit cohesion more generally.
Unit Cohesion and Warfare in the Ancient World is of interest to students and scholars of ancient warfare, military history and military studies, as well as those working on the ancient Mediterranean world more broadly.