AW269 - The impact of weather on conflict

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We are between issues of the magazine for this episode of the podcast. After casting around for ideas, Mark suggested the topic for Friday night's chat: the impact of weather on conflict.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to another issue of the ancient warfare magazine podcast. We're on an in-betweener, in-between our episodes where we talk about the latest issue of the magazine. That's currently being written, but secrets till next time. And we decided this time that we were going to talk about the effects of weather of the magazine that's currently being written but secrets till next time uh and we decided this
0:21.7	time that we were going to talk about the effects of weather on ancient warfare so uh joining me are
0:28.0	our regular panelists mark lecassanthus mark mccaffrey lindsay powell and mike cole uh yasper is aOL
0:34.6	i think the weather held him up um so I'm hosting, which is always exciting.
0:40.1	And who would like to kick us off with the effects of weather? We've already talked off camera
0:45.2	about which battles they're going to discuss and who was going to fight about who wanted to
0:49.8	do the same battle as someone else. So we'll let play. I'll start. I just had a handful of naval battles
0:57.1	I wanted to talk about whether played some role. One was the 429 Battle of Chalkes from the
1:04.8	Archidamian War of the Peloponnesian War. At battle, The Peloponnesian fleet was trying to cross.
1:11.4	The Gulf of Corinth had a larger fleet than the Athenians, but the Athenians were much more
1:16.2	talented rowers.
1:17.8	The crossing was occurring during the night, and the Peloponnesian fleet adopted a Ku Klose
1:24.2	formation, which was where they pointed all of their bow
1:27.5	outwards in a defensive posture so that the Athenians, you know, wouldn't be able to
1:33.6	attack them so easily. But the Athenians started rowing around them, right? That's how much
1:38.8	better they were. The Athenian Admiral at the time was named Formio. He knew that in
1:43.7	the morning, the wind would pick up coming from the Gulf of Corinth,
1:47.3	and that pushed the Peloponnesian ships together, and that's when he attacked.
1:52.4	And it was a big resoundary for the Athenians.
1:57.3	In another battle, this comes from the Ionian War, years later, 406 BC, the weathered
2:05.9	impact at the Battle of Arganusai in 406 BC.
2:09.4	A huge storm came up after the Athenian victory, and because of the storm, the Athenian
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