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

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Now, before we start, I've got, you know, I mentioned before that sometimes I come across

something that I forgot to mention.

I had a question a couple of episodes ago about Kingly, one-on-one combat.

I came across Queenly one-on-one combat in Polyinus, one of my favorite authors and someone I wrote a master's thesis on,

talking about Kunna, the sister of Alexander

the Great, who used to train for war, commanded armies and took her place in the ranks

against her enemies. Nice. In a battle with the Illyrians, she slew their queen carrier with a blow

to the throat and killed many Illyrians in the flight. So there's even a queenly one-on-one combat.

We sometimes doubt those, but, you know, it's the sister of Alexander the Great and the daughter of, you know,

Philip II. So it's entirely understandable. But that's just by the by. That's not the reason

for today's ancient warfare answers. Today's ancient warfare answers is a question from Thomas.

And Thomas says, we've all heard of ancient armies catapulting corpses and manure over walls and sieges.

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