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Ancient Warfare Podcast

AWA214 - What can you tell us about the Battle of Crimisus in 340BC?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

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

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the last episode, Murray answered the first of two questions Doug posed, the second question being a request to explain the battle of Crimisus in 340BC.


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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray.

0:09.7

I am your host today on your weekly fix of ancient warfare related stuff.

0:14.5

And this time we're getting very sophisticated because my answer follows on from last week's answer.

0:19.2

So if you haven't watched last week or listen to last week, you can do that now or go back after I've spoken about it in this one.

0:26.8

And so not that we want the person to get greedy because I'm answering two questions a week after each other from the same person.

0:35.3

But you, of course, can ask us questions too.

0:37.3

You can ask them on Patreon. You can send us questions too. You can ask them on Patreon.

0:38.6

You can send us a message.

0:39.5

You can send us an email.

0:40.6

And we will do our best to answer the questions.

0:43.1

And this one is, again, from Doug Fulkeson.

0:45.4

And he asked us about the battle of cremiusus.

0:48.7

Cremius.

0:49.4

Yes.

0:50.0

Cremis.

0:51.2

Cremissus.

0:52.6

Cremissus, there you go, just to show that there are shibboleths everywhere.

0:56.4

Fought in 340 or 339 BC between the Carthaginians,

1:04.1

Asdrable and Hamilcar and Tumoleon at Syracuse.

1:08.6

So it's an interesting battle because it's essentially one of these Greek generals

1:18.8

coming to Sicily and winning a great victory against the Carthaginians who, of course, were seeking to conquer the island as part of their imperial expansion.

1:34.6

And there's several reasons for that, which are worth exploring.

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