Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast. My name is Jospel

Wirthouse. I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine and with me today are Mark McCaffrey,

Lindsay Powell, Murray Dom and Mark Dissentis. And it's an in-betweener, as we say.

So it means we pick a random topic.

And we decided this time we talk about our favorite ancient military sources and why.

So I guess what we'll just do is I'll just point at someone, even though you can't see it.

But, but, but, and it won't even make sense for them because I'm pointing at a screen.

It could be any of them.

And, uh, and we'll see what, what comes up.

Mark, uh, Mark DeSantis, I think you said you've prepped several.

So how about you do the one that we know about or the surprise that you pick?

I chose Aryan because his history of Alexander's campaign, I think, is one of the first pieces of ancient military history that I read. And it's one of the first pieces of ancient military history that I read and it's one of the first that I ever studied in depth and researched with it.

And I think that in terms of its narrative flow, its overall quality, I think it's very, very high, it's extremely good.

And I think that while every work emanating from the ancient world has its flaws, I think this one got across at least, I think a believable picture of Alexander.

Once again, not to say that we take everything at face value simply because Aryan presented to us.

But I think Aryan was a capable historian who was able to himself take the sources that he had and turn it into a coherent narrative history of his own.

Further, as a military historian, I think that he is of a great deal of value.

And I think that comes from the fact that Ari and himself was a soldier in the sense that he commanded from what we understand as

governor of Capodosia, military, Roman military forces that were used to expel invading

Allens from the within the frontiers of the Roman Empire sometime in the early second century. And I think that having

a real world military experience probably helped him write his history of Alexander. So I would say

for me, it's Aryan. I also would like to put forward he's not a military historian but and I

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