Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Podcast.

My name is Jasper Wirthaus.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And with me tonight are Mark DeSantis, Lindsey Powell and Murray Dom, the assistant editor for

ancient warfare magazine.

And today we're going to be talking about issue 106, which is just about to, well, actually

might already be on a truck out to the distributors.

So in stores and with subscribers very soon.

And if you have a digital subscription, you've got it already.

The theme of that issue is the warfare in late archaic Greece, so 7th and 6th centuries

BC.

The time of men that look like hoplites, but maybe don't actually fight like hoplites, as we might think initially.

And that's one of those big questions that we try to do something about.

And I'm sure we can discuss that or we could discuss something that Mark brought up just before we started this discussion.

Mark, do you want to try that straight away?

My question, my hypothesis is that the archaic Greek warrior is descendant of the Dark Ages Greek warrior,

who is himself descended from the late Bronze Age warrior.

Because I look and the pictorial evidence for all of these soldiers is that if you see them

depicted on vases or painted somewhere, that they typically are carrying a shield, not always round, but

typically round.

They have some form of bar diommer that would be a corslet, grieves, a long spear as their

primary weapon, also a sword, and some sort of helmet.

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