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Ancient Warfare Podcast

AWA195 - What did Epaminondas look like?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

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

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Murray is on holiday in New Zealand, but while on his travels he has found the time to answer this question from Christopher.

'Do we have any indication as to what Epaminondas of Thebes looked like? He was a fantastic general and I find it strange that we have not found any statues or busts that portray him. Is it because Alexander razed Thebes to the ground?"

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to another ancient warfare answers on the road. I'm Murray

0:11.0

I'm the assistant editor of the magazine and I'm currently in New Zealand so I am recording

0:15.7

this in an entirely different environment than normal. I'm going to answer one of your questions in a moment.

0:21.9

Of course, you can ask a question too, if you like.

0:24.1

You just need to send us an email or a message.

0:26.6

And, of course, you can back us on Patreon and become one of our patrons.

0:31.6

All you need to do is go to www. patreon.com forward slash ancient warfare podcast.

0:38.8

And you can back us three different levels.

0:42.1

There is legionary, optio and centurion.

0:45.9

And each of those levels gets a different access to the magazine,

0:51.2

whether it be digital or a physical copy of the magazine. Now, of course,

0:56.7

the other thing is that what we do in these ancient warfare answers is that either Yaspel or

1:02.7

I or both of us will answer one of your questions in a short burst of 10 minutes of ancient

1:08.7

warfare. So it's really your weekly ancient warfare fix. And then every

1:13.3

month, the whole team will meet to discuss some issue of ancient warfare. We have two

1:21.5

different types. One is what we call an in-betweener, which we will talk about some topic of

1:26.3

ancient warfare. And the other is, of course, we discussed the about some topic of ancient warfare.

1:29.2

And the other is, of course,

1:32.6

we discussed the most recent issue of ancient warfare magazine.

1:35.5

And we discussed the theme of that magazine in terms of what articles have discussed and things like that

1:40.4

and other topics arising therefrom.

1:43.7

And so these are the short little bursts.

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