AW164 - Ancient Warfare Fiction
Ancient Warfare Podcast
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast. My name is Jos Poratash. I'm the editor of |
| 0:06.4 | Ancient Warfare Magazine. And with me today are Mark DeSantis, Mark McCaffrey, Murray Dam, Michael and Lindsay Powell. |
| 0:14.4 | We haven't got an issue to discuss today, but since it's still the middle of summer, we thought we might discuss about |
| 0:23.2 | some things that you might like to read about ancient warfare that are maybe somewhat |
| 0:31.0 | easier for consumption than some academic books might be, although I would totally expect |
| 0:37.2 | this crowd to go, |
| 0:39.2 | oh, I've loaded my vacation beach time reading with several ancient sources |
| 0:46.7 | and something with more footnotes than there are actually pages in the book. |
| 0:52.1 | What do you like to read? |
| 0:53.5 | When you read ancient fiction, what do you like to read? |
| 0:56.6 | Who would like to start with that? |
| 0:58.8 | Well, Suetonius jumps to mind when you want to read ancient fiction. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:05.8 | Thank you, Marie. |
| 1:07.0 | And we're going right into source critique. |
| 1:09.2 | Well, that's true. |
| 1:10.0 | That's true. |
| 1:10.8 | Well, Procopius. |
| 1:11.7 | No, anyway, I think when we're coming to the topic that we're talking about, |
| 1:15.6 | ancient warfare fiction is niche within niche, really. |
| 1:19.9 | You know, ancient world fiction is rare enough. |
| 1:23.5 | For me, ancient world fiction, probably the greatest writer of ancient world fiction is still |
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