AW301 - Rams

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast, Murray and Jasper are joined by Stephen DeCasien to discuss rams on ships.

Stephen is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University studying Nautical Archaeology. His academic interests are Greek and Roman maritime history and archaeology, with a special focus on naval warfare, naval rams, and warships.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast.
0:09.4	My name is Jasper Ortiz.
0:10.9	I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.
0:12.7	With me is Murray Dom.
0:14.0	He's the assistant editor.
0:15.3	And we have a returning guest, Stephen the Session.
0:19.3	He's been on the show, I think, about two years ago.
0:23.2	I don't know, two, three.
0:25.2	It was probably during COVID time, so that is kind of nebulous.
0:28.5	But we're all very interested in blunt naval trauma.
0:31.8	So we decided we'd get him on again and talk some more about Rams, which we'll have to navigate
0:40.9	a little bit carefully because that was a pun unintended.
0:43.7	So many, so many naval funds.
0:46.8	Yes.
0:48.3	We'll have to be a little bit careful because, you know, this is obviously an audio-only show
0:53.9	and describing Rams might be hard to do.
0:59.5	But maybe I should sort of introduce what we sort of know about ramming up to all the discoveries near Agadee.
1:09.6	I think I'm not wrong in saying that in the early 1980s,
1:13.7	the athlete ram was discovered,
1:15.7	which is about 600 kilos, I think.
1:18.2	It's a bronze monster of a thing.
1:21.7	And we had a handful of other ones,
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