AW287 - The Marcomannic Wars

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

'Shortly after Marcus Aurelius came to power in AD 161, the Roman Empire was racked by a series of military crises. While unrest in Britain and a new war with Parthia were swiftly dealt with, the invasion of Roman territory by the Chatti and Chauci peoples heralded a resurgent threat from the empire’s European neighbours. Soon the Marcomanni and the Quadi, as well as the Dacians and the Sarmatian Iazyges, would attack the Romans in a series of savage conflicts that continued until AD 175 and would involve the first invasion of Roman Italy since the beginning of the 1st century BC.'

Marc talks to Murray about his latest Combat title for Osprey on Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars, Barbarian Warrior vs Roman Legionary: Marcomannic Wars AD 165–180.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Ancient Warfare Podcast. My name is Mark DeSantis, and loyal listeners
0:11.5	may recognize me as a longtime member of the podcast panel. Today, however, I'll be hosting
0:17.5	this episode in which I talk with my esteemed colleague,
0:24.2	Murray Dom, the assistant editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine, about his latest book, Barbarian Warrior v. Roman Legionary,
0:29.5	Markomanic Wars, AD 165 to 180, out now from Osprey.
0:35.3	So without further delay, let's enter the arena.
0:38.6	We who are about to chat, salute you.
0:40.5	Well, yes, I believe it's out.
0:42.0	It's out as you watch this, even the earliest watch.
0:45.5	Hold that up again for us, if you don't mind.
0:48.0	Oh, that's wonderful.
0:49.9	Barbarian warrior versus Roman legionary.
0:52.5	Fantastic.
0:53.3	Yes, exactly.
0:53.7	So that's the latest combat in the
0:59.3	the latest in the combat series for offspring.
1:01.5	And what is the combat series?
1:04.5	So the combat series takes two belligerents in a series of wars, so it can be an infantryman, a cavalryman, and we'll
1:15.1	look at them in isolation, so look at a random legionary equipment, recruitment, leadership
1:22.1	organization, and look at them both sort of of in comparison and then explore three major
1:31.6	conflicts between those two belligerents when they met in three separate battles and
1:37.8	explore the battle accounts and then how those two belligerents performed in those battles.
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