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Uchale has another question today.

I've recently watched a video by Faria Farage, I hope I say that right, on just how inaccurate a lot of modern interpretations of ancient music is.

One of his pet peeves is the use of Armenian dudukes for anything vaguely Arabic.

Two questions, I hope this is okay.

Do you have a pet peeve that every movie gets wrong about ancient warfare? Do I? And mine are braces. Yes, braces. Braces are great.

Have you ever researched anything in regards to ancient music in your area of expertise?

Funnily enough, yes, and I think I made a comment in a previous video about how that

question didn't cover off on my love of opera.

More of that are not.

So this will be a two-parter.

The first part will be the ancient history part and the ancient warfare part.

The second part will veer still ancient history into music.

So I will have sucked you in by talking about ancient warfare in the first half,

and then you'll be stuck hearing me talk about opera in the second half.

Now, so coming back to the first part of your question, Yuchale, about pet peeves.

My pet peeve is probably the domination of ancient warfare on film with flaming weapons, whether it be arrows or balls from, you know, catapults and ballistae that are flaming, especially when either it's a daytime battle against infantry. There's no need to flame anything. It just looks

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