Hi everyone and welcome to another issue of the ancient warfare podcast. And this time we are discussing

the latest issue of the magazine, 17.4 on the end of the Persian Wars or the Persian Wars part two.

And joining me on the panel day are Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffrey and Mark Dacentis.

And I'm Murray-Darm, the assistant editor of the magazine.

Yaspur is exhausted and having the night off.

So here we are.

The Cats Away.

The Boys will play.

And we're going to talk about the end of the Persian Wars, which is a very peculiar way to talk about the Persian wars, because we did an earlier issue of the magazine, which looked at the battles of Thermopyla and Salamis, for instance, taking us down to 480 BC.

And this one, we specifically said not those, from you know that point onwards and so looking

not just at obviously the cumulative year of 479 with the Battle of Pleteer and McKaylay

but the other aspects of the Persian wars which don't really get a lot of media, because

most people will talk about the Persian Wars as being 480 to 479, and it ends with the

Battle of Plataea.

And that misses out a whole bunch of very intriguing history.

Later historians will talk about what's called the 50-year period,

the Pentecontietia, which is the beginning of Thucydides as history, which traces that

50 years since the end of the Persian Wars until the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.

And so it's in that area that you get a complex series of campaigns and machinations of politics and

other things going on in the Aegean where the Greeks basically make it into a Greek sea rather

than it being a Persian sea. So that's what the issue looked at. So there's all sorts of articles in there that are not your normal fare for a Persian Wars examination, which is interesting in itself.

Is there any aspect of it that you think we didn't cover or that we could have covered that we did differently from how you would expect it?

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