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

I'm Murray and I'll be taking you through this question today, which is short and sharp,

but probably will lead to a very long answer from me.

But before we get to that, of course, you can ask us a question if you like,

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burning ancient military history topics, such as the question that we got from Gerard on email,

which is, as I said, short and sharp,

who is your favorite ancient military author?

Well, gosh, there are so many to choose from, and I know that everyone who does the full

Ancient Warfare podcast panel would have a different opinion, and certainly I can tell

you now that my choice is going to be on the edges of that.

But there are very good reasons for who I choose.

And, you know, going through the sources, Herodotus is still going to be my favorite read.

Herodotus is just a fabulous author to read, even just to dip into,

you know, you've got Libby, Polybius, Xenophon, and all the way through to Amiensis, Marsa Linus,

who, you know, deals with the 4th century in Rome. And for me, though, the two, it's got to be a tie,

I'm sorry, and that is the two surviving authors of

stratagem collections, who are Polyonus of Macedon, who writes a collection of stratagem

in the 160s AD for Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius.

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