Hi everyone and welcome to another ancient warfare answers, Murray's ancient warfare answers,

because again I'm by myself.

And this time I'm going to be asking a very interesting question, well, one that got me

thinking along very peculiar lines and hopefully I can come up with an interesting answer.

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And today's question is a bit of a wiggly one.

What is a useful analogy for talking about ancient warfare?

Now, I was asked this one in a very peculiar context.

I've recently joined the Cathedral Choir in Sydney.

And so one of the men next to me in the choir, one of the bases, was asking what I did,

and I told them, you know, I went, well, I do this and I do this and I do that, I do a bit of that,

and I do a bit of that, and they were like, gosh, oh, how do you explain ancient warfare?

You know, do you use an analogy?

And I find for myself that, no, I tend not to use analogies and I find that very often analogies

don't work. My most embarrassing story of analogy was when I was teaching Roman history and I had to

teach the concept of Moss Myorum, the habits of our ancestors and I used the blue jelly bean to explain Moss Mayoram,

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