Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers.

This one is ancient warfare on the road.

I'm actually in New Zealand as we record this, so hopefully this works.

Hence just audio rather than visuals.

I don't look up to much ancient wearing.

And of course, you can ask a question.

We're going to answer a question in just a moment.

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Today's question is, how do we trust Homer?

Are there good examples of corroborating accounts that give us a means to verify or put his

missives in context?

Now, that is a question to which the simple answer is we've just done an issue of the magazine on Homeric Warfare, which looks at that question.

So we can read that copy of the magazine.

But I thought we might have a bit of a chat about Homer.

Homer gets a bit of a hard time from a lot of people today about not being a description

of a particular kind of warfare, but actually being a piece of poetry that jumbles everything

up.

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