Sorry for the timeline I chose. I just mean generally before like 1500AC. Were there any recounts of soldiers being scared? Such as writings, or paintings? Surely we're no different now than we were back then. Also, are there any counts of post-war feelings/emotions/PTSD? Possibly talked about by doctors? Such as having nightmares of killing villages of people, babies, unarmed women, etc.? Thanks, it just crossed my mind and I realized I've never heard of PTSD or people being scared way back with the romans or Greeks or Persians. Thanks in advance.
It's a complicated matter, made even more so by the inherent difficulty of psychoanalysing a long-dead person from a wholly different cultural background at a distance of years or centuries. u/Iphikrates examines the matter in this post (it deals mainly with the Greeks, but many of the same concerns hold true for the Romans), while u/hillsonghoods has a Monday Methods post on just why it's so complicated.