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

Well, some very exciting things.

Firstly, there's another postcard and it's a hand-drawn one from Simon Ferdinand from Amsterdam.

Thank you, Simon.

Amazing.

It's going to take its private place up there. It will cover some Aristotle in just a moment. Thank you for that. Francesco, I haven't forgotten you, but my knowledge of metals for reenactors is poor, so I'm still researching. So I will get to that. And the question that Simon asks, and I think this is a third

century AD Roman legionary, third maybe fourth, but third, I'm thinking third, anyway, glorious.

Murray, top podcasting. My AWA questions are these? One, it's often said that Greek armies put

their best soldiers on the right. Given that predictability is exploitable, how and why did such a convention arise?

Nice.

On to that in the moment.

Two, were there no notions of losing well or instance of an exemplary defeat in ancient warfare?

Thanks, Patrian Simon.

Lovely.

Right.

Well, let's answer question one first.

Indeed, it is often said that ancient Greek armies put their best soldiers on the right,

and that does become a convention.

And, of course, it is exploited, which we'll get to.

So what we have in various ancient Greek accounts,

and like all ancient battle accounts, it's never consistently

said. It's said a few times, but enough for us to say this is a consistent practice.

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