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The role of geography in ancient warfare
Episode 92
'Natural and man-made geography exerts its influence on warfare, determining the passage of whole armies and fleets, sometimes allowing a single sold…
6 years, 6 months ago
Ancient warfare tropes
Episode 91
We're back with another Ancient Warfare podcast. In this episode we're going to be discussing tropes; what we know, what we thing we know and where i…
6 years, 6 months ago
Hired Help From Overseas - Sparta and Epirus visit Southern Italy
Episode 90
Tarentum in southern Italy may have been a Spartan colony, but when it was under pressure from first its Italic neighbours and then Rome itself, it p…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Roman Conquest of Spain
Episode 89
We thought we'd missed discussing a few episodes of the magazine so we decided to look at I.4 the Roman Conquest of Spain. As it turns out, we've app…
6 years, 8 months ago
Military Celebrity in the Ancient World
Episode 88
We are once more between issues of the magazine, so in this episode the team have decided to discuss military celebrity in the ancient world, how imp…
6 years, 9 months ago
An Empire Under Pressure: Germanic Raiding and Invasion
Episode 87
Tempted by lowered defences, riches on the Roman side of the Rhine, or just pushed forward by peoples further east, Germanic tribes started to raid a…
6 years, 11 months ago
Oliver Stone's Alexander
Episode 86
We're discussing the 2004 film from Director Oliver Stone, Alexander. While it was expensive film to make it wasn't a box office smash. What do the t…
7 years ago
Rome's Indispensable Auxiliaries
Episode 85
'Men recruited from every corner of the empire, auxiliaries played an important role in augmenting Rome's military might. For the soldiers themselves…
7 years, 1 month ago
Spartan Invincibility
Episode 74
We are once more between issues of the magazine, so running with a random ancient warfare topic, the one that has been pulled out of the hat for this…
7 years, 2 months ago
The power of Poseidon - Naval warfare in the Hellenistic era
Episode 83
'The first decades of the Hellenistic era are famous for the ever-growing warships of the Ptolemies, but naval warfare wasn't just about who had the …
7 years, 3 months ago