AWA264 - What do we know about ancient fire signalling?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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After recently rereading Thucydides, GC asks, "Fire-signals of an attack were also raised towards Thebes; but the Plataeans in the town at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy’s signals unintelligible."

I would have imagined that a fire signal was quite simple, fire or no fire. This implies much greater sophistication.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to another episode of actual Bounceers with me, Murray.
0:09.5	You would have seen in the last one that I did where I talked about myself that I said that
0:14.8	some of the things I like to delve into are topics which are obscure or people tend not to explore them for whatever reason
0:25.6	or they reproduce generalized comments about certain things.
0:30.2	And completely uncharted for me, the question today is going to be one of those
0:35.5	serendipitously that covers something that I've done exactly that
0:38.5	with and that is fire signalling which we'll get to in a minute of course welcome ancient
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