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Ancient Warfare Podcast

AWA: How did the Celts fight the Greek Phalanx?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

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

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Murray ponders this query from Michael watching on youtube, 'maybe a side note to this is to draw parallels with the Celtic invasions of Greece and how they fought the phalanx? Or what Hannibal learnt from his Spanish war, and how he applied that against the legions.'

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conditions apply. Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare magazine Answers podcast.

1:13.8

That's a bit longer than it usually is. We usually call it ancient warfare answers.

1:17.7

I'm Jasper Ortiz. I'm the editor of the magazine. And with me is Murray Dom. He's the assistant editor.

1:23.4

And today we're going to be talking about the question that was sent to us by, I'm going to see if I can find that real quick.

1:31.8

No.

1:32.5

Yeah, Michael Ward on YouTube asked us, can we draw any parallels with the Celtic invasions of Greece and how they fought the phalanx?

1:40.5

Do we know how the Celts fought the phalanx, Murray?

1:43.6

Well, the very quick answer is no. We know how the Celts fought the phalanx, Murray? Well, the very quick answer is no.

1:46.5

We know that the Gallic invasion of Greece and Macedonia in 280 BC defeated the phalanx.

1:55.7

This, of course, is at the exact same time that Pyrrhus of Epirus is in southern Italy defeating the Roman

2:02.9

Legion in the very, very famous Pyrrhic victories. So he won, but he lost so many men that,

2:08.3

you know, famously said, if I have another victory like that, I'm lost. So what we know is that

2:16.4

there's, at the time, of course, there is confusion and

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