AW348 - Greece in the fourth century BC

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"The Peloponnesian War had ripped up the existing alliances in Greece — over the next decades, the main city-states looked for ways to regain money, power, and win battles."

The team discuss the latest issue of the magazine City-States in an Arms Race: Greek innovation in the fourth century BC, issue 101.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare podcast. With me today are Murray
0:10.2	Dom, assistant editor of the magazine, Lindsay Powell. He's our news editor, Mark DeSantis. He's one of
0:17.1	our long-term contributors to this podcast. And my name is Jasper Wirthaus, and I'm the editor
0:21.5	of Ancient Warfare Magazine. Today we'll be discussing issue 101, and it's not an introduction
0:28.3	to anything, other than an introduction, perhaps, to Greek warfare and innovations in the 4th century
0:35.1	BC. We noticed in our pre-discussion that we actually did not have any questions that were sent in
0:44.0	by patrons.
0:47.2	But there is plenty on this topic to discuss because in the magazine, we mostly talk about the infantry innovations in the 4th century,
0:58.0	and actually only about the Greek ones, because, of course, we had an issue about Macedonia and Philip II.
1:06.2	About two years ago, I want to say, 15-6, I think.
1:10.0	But there are also innovations in siege warfare
1:13.2	and at sea. So perhaps we could start by having a discussion about those. Because what happens,
1:22.5	I mean, maybe we want to have a shorter introduction of what happens in the fourth century
1:26.4	that everybody suddenly goes into the workshop and the labs and goes, what are we want to have a shorter introduction of what happens in the fourth century that everybody suddenly
1:27.5	goes into the workshop and the labs and goes what are we going to do now mary is that something you
1:34.9	can i think that's probably you know in a in a well quick gosh no me never um the interesting thing
1:42.1	i think is that that does seem to be in the post-Paloponnesian
1:46.1	war world, we've got to do things differently, attitude that's coming about across the Greek
1:52.5	states. We tend to focus on a couple of the innovations. And then, of course, because of what
1:59.5	happens in the first half of the fourth century and then the rise. And then, of course, because of what happens in the first half of
2:01.7	the fourth century and then the rise of Macedonia, it all kind of gets lost in the triumph
2:07.7	of Macedonia. But the fact of the matter is that in that period that we look at in the magazine
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