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Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. Why did early civilisations fight? Who were their Generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. Warfare minus two thousand years.

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11:17

AWA264 - What do we know about ancient fire signalling?

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2023/08/04

After recently rereading Thucydides, GC asks, "Fire-signals of an attack were also raised towards Thebes; but the Plataeans in the town at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy’s signals unintelligible." I would have imagined that a fire signal was quite simple, fire or no fire. This implies much greater sophistication. What is known about this?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:17

AWA263 - How did Murray become such a generalist?

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2023/07/28

In this week's Any Warfare Answers, Murray answers this question sent in by Jamie. 'The rest of the guys on the podcast all have their areas of expertise and are each an expert in a different, very specific aspect of ancient history, whereas you seem to have a grasp of all of it. How did you become such a generalist?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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12:56

AWA262 - How did the ancients hire mercenaries?

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2023/07/21

Kyle asks, 'What was the mechanism that Carthage (or really any ancient power) used to recruit mercenaries? Were there people whose job it was to travel Gaul, Iberia, Greece, etc., recruiting, or was the sending of mercenaries part of political negations?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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52:33

AW261 - An Audience with Murray Dahm

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/07/14

Something slightly different for this episode of the Ancient Warfare podcast. Regular of the podcast Marc De Santis talks to Murray about his work, focusing on the books Murray has written for Osprey, specifically his four books for the Combat Series. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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12:36

AWA260 - Did the ancients use volley fire?

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2023/07/07

In this episode, Murray muses on a question sent in by Nathan asking if, in the ancient world, there was some sort of volley fire such as we see in the 19th century with ranks of infantry. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:42

AWA259 - Ancient Assassins

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/06/30

Andy has been listening to rival podcasts as points out that 'the term assassin does not turn up until after the crusades. My understanding is there were plenty of assassinations before this. What term did the Romans use? Where these people specially trained?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:19

AWA258 - Did Alexander introduce Pankration to India?

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2023/06/23

Curt asks Murray, 'did Alexander The Great’s army introduce Pankration to India? If so could Pankration have contributed to the future expansion of martial arts from India to China & other Asian countries?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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47:28

AW257 - What should the magazine explore?

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/06/16

Jasper, the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine, asked on social media what themes readers felt the magazine had not covered but should or themes it should revisit. The team look at what suggestions were sent in and give some thoughts of their own. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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09:40

AWA256 - Did any armies use field artillery against...

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/06/09

Jacob wonders, 'if field artillery was ever used against a Macedonian-style phalanx? If not, why not? The close formation and immobility of the phalanx would leave it extremely susceptible to scorpion, ballista, etc fire.' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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13:02

AWA255 - Did the Ancients use verbal insults on weapons?

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2023/06/02

Carlos asks, 'in the current war in Ukraine, we've seen Ukrainian soldiers write insulting messages and trolling ones on artillery shells before firing them at Russian forces. Did a similar practice exist in the ancient Mediterranean world with soldiers writing insults and or the use of verbal insults.' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:45

AWA254 - How did Rome's Italian allies fight?

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2023/05/26

Wyton asks, 'During the republic, what were the Romans Italian allies armed with, and how did they fight? As legionaries or some other method?' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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AW253 - The Late Roman East

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/05/19

'Even before the empire split into two separate halves, the Augusti in the East had to contend with devastating Gothic raids and near-constant wars with the Sasanian Empire.' The team discuss issue XVI.3 of the magazine Goths, Sasanids and Romans: The Roman Empire in the East at bay. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:27

AWA252 - Why Javelins?

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2023/05/12

Robert asks, 'Why javelins? It seems that a bow would be a much better weapon for a skirmish in the ancient world, but it seems that javeLin armed light troops may have been the most common type in Europe. Additionally, if using javelins, why not an atlatl to throw them with? This would make a difference in hitting a target, but one has to believe that range would be an important factor while skirmishing.' Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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10:55

AWA251 - Large-Scale Experimental Archaeology

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/05/05

'Is there today or has there been anyone trying to conduct larger-scale experimental archaeology to try and answer some of the common questions about certain infantry tactics/tropes such as the othismos and open vs closed order legions?' Murray tells us about experimental archaeology. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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12:43

AWA250 - The Last Documented Roman Legion

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2023/04/28

Alex asks, 'When is the last documented evidence of one of the original Roman Legions being in existence? I remember reading about Legio V Macedonica being based in Egypt just before the Arab Conquests in the 640s, but I am unsure if this is factually correct'. Murray lists us the last documented evidence for the Legions. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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53:15

AW249 - The 19th-century foundations of Classical...

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/04/21

Murray talks with Roel Konijnendijk about his recent work on 19th-century German language scholars and how they laid the foundations of much of the 20th century's understanding of Classical Greek warfare. Giants like Moltke, Delbrück, Kochly and Rustow's foundations were, however, based on 19th-century understandings of how war worked, and their views (rightfully) have been challenged. This only began in earnest in the late 20th century, and overcoming the dominance of these 19th-century thinkers

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10:51

AWA248 - What if Alexander had turned west?

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/04/14

Curt wonders why did Alexander the Great not look westwards, starting with Rome during his conquests? There are a lot of 'what if's' here for Murray to deal with. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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09:56

AWA247 - What do we know about the Skiritai?

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2023/04/07

Samuel points out that Xenophon makes reference to the Sciritai as part of the Spartan army foray into Boeotia during the mid-370s). And the sources are a bit patchy. He asks do we know/can we infer anything about the Sciritai? How did they fit into Spartan society as a whole? What roles did they perform within the Spartan army (on and off the battlefield)? How were they armed? Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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06:31

AWA246 - Can AI help translate ancient manuscripts?

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/03/31

Mark, one of our patrons, wonders if Murray sees a place for AI in helping to translate ancient manuscripts. Could AI step up to help with this and help sort and categorise through keywords, names, etc. Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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09:32

AWA245 - Why did the sarissa fall out of use until...

Ancient Warfare Podcast ·

2023/03/24

Listener Andy Shaw wonders why the sarissa 'seems to fall out of use between the two periods even though protecting infantry from cavalry remains a consistent problem across ancient and medieval warfare'? Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

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