Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. We're once more between issues of the magazine.

So Mr McCaffrey suggested a title for this episode of 300 versus the real hoplites. I'm not sure where that will get us, but I guess we'll see.

So joining me, Jasper Othage, Mark DeSantis, Mark McCaffrey, Lindsay Powell,

and Paul Bardunius. Paul is the author of Hoplites at War, a comprehensive analysis of heavy

infantry combat in the Greek world. So I guess, um, as 300's in the title, because I think Mark,

Mr. McCaffrey, you gave us the title for this,

and then I forgot the title for this, and then thought we were looking at 300, but I knew that

didn't sound right. And then I found my notes after a conversation with Yaspego, we're not doing

300, I'm sure we're doing the 300. And then I found a random piece of paper that's thrown away

that I'd noted down that you'd

suggested 300 versus the real hoplight. But as you suggested the title and as 300 is in

the title of this episode, what do we all think of 300 as a film?

Well, you know what? It's interesting because I was wondering how I was actually going to watch it.

And funny enough, it was either BBC America or AMC broadcast it.

So I actually got the indignity of watching it twice because I joined it about five minutes into the middle.

All I'll say is it's entertainment.

And I won't say much more.

It's very entertaining. It's visually stunning. But beyond that, I don't have much good to see.

Personally, I'm torn between 300 and Wonder Woman as to which has more realistic big combat.

Yeah. I mean, I think it was a fantastic piece of flim flam. And I sort of thought some of the themes that it actually brings out have some kind of, you know, people could go

off and maybe think about and pull, you know, well, is that, what is that, where they got that

from? Well, isn't it, isn't it just basically the cartoon book

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