Hi everyone and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. I am your host today. Marry

Dam. I'm the assistant editor of the magazine. Yaspur is somewhere in the air, possibly over Canada,

maybe the Atlantic somewhere. And so we are able to talk about the latest issue of the magazine

in his absence. And with me are Mark McCaffrey and Mark DeSantis. And we're going to talk about

issue 15.3 of the magazine, which is on Homeric Warfare. We've had a fair few questions coming

from patrons and viewers. So that's exciting. But I was joking just before we went on air

that really, for the entire podcast, all I

need to do is ask two questions, one of which is what is the nature of Homeric Warfare,

and the second is, what do we mean by Homeric? So those are big, thorny questions that will take

a lot longer than we've got to speak. So let's see how far we can get. What do you think we mean when we say

Homeric warfare, Mark? I think it comes down to, on the one hand, and I think this was sort of

touched upon, you know, it became fairly obvious as you went through the edition of the magazine,

that there is a big discrepancy over whether we should, on the one hand,

be talking about Homeric warfare in terms of Homer and his elite in the Odyssey and whatnot.

Are we to trust Homer that he's actually giving some sort of description of warfare in Mycenaean times?

And by Macon, we're talking about

mycanan civilization going from 1900 BC

down to 13 or 1100,

depending again on who you're following.

In terms of going back to Homer,

he, of course, is writing somewhere between 500 to 800 years, again,

depending on which argument you take as to the date of Homer's authorship.

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