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Who is your favourite ancient military author?
Episode 211
It is a big thanks to Gerrard for emailing Murray this question. Murray tells us about who is his favourite military author, and why.
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3 years, 7 months ago
The Roman version of Marathon
Episode 210
A few months ago, in response to episode AW137, where the team discussed the Greco-Persian war, Maxnet got in touch via Facebook to ask which source …
3 years, 7 months ago
What do we know of the armies at the end of Roman Britain?
Episode 209
3 years, 8 months ago
How can we imagine ancient cavalry charges?
Episode 208
3 years, 8 months ago
Hadrian's Wall
Episode 207
It is the 1,900th anniversary of the building of Hadrian's Wall, that is if it was begun in AD 122 and not AD 119. Not only is there doubt over the y…
3 years, 8 months ago
What do we know of Philippian/Alexandrian weapons production?
Episode 206
Rich posed this question for Murray, 'we have a relatively good picture of what the Roman Legionary weapons and materiel manufacturing process looked…
3 years, 8 months ago
How would a Roman campaign against king Maroboduus of the Marcomanni have gone?
Episode 205
Patron of the podcast Chris writes, 'we are told right before the great Illyrian revolt of AD 6-9, the Romans were preparing a campaign against king …
3 years, 9 months ago
National Weapons - were nations named after weapons or vice versa?
Episode 204
Scot emailed us this question for Murray to answer; 'Certain tribal confederations, like the Franks & Saxons, typically bear "namesake" weapons (e.g.…
3 years, 9 months ago
Wargaming Ancient Battles
Episode 203
In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast Jasper, Murray and Myke talk to games designer Mark Backhouse about his new game Strength &…
3 years, 9 months ago
Oliganthropia - the decline in Spartan Manpower
Episode 202
Patron of the podcast James poses this question for Murray, 'The number of Spartan soldiers declined from its high of 10,000 to less than 2,000 aroun…
3 years, 9 months ago