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This is a part two, because I got carried away with the last question,

this is a second part of answering Chris's question,

see previous podcast. I recently read your article about the Siege of Misada in Ancient

Warfare magazine and had a couple of questions regarding assumptions made about the shortened

timeline of the siege. Specifically, you mentioned two assumptions supporting the idea of a shorter siege.

Shorter siege. I was curious if you could provide more information or sources to support

this hypothesis. I got carried away with the second part of the question about the reliability

of Josephus and waxed on about that. And completely forgot, sorry, Chris, to answer this part of

your question. So the shorter timeline is something that has been argued in various different

modern authors since. There's not really anything specific in Josephus' timeline about the siege

to tell us how long it took. It's very vague in the sense of how long was the Roman force there.

But if you have a look at the further reading in the issue of the magazine, Campbell

1988, Berlin 2002, Campbell 2010, Cotton 89, Gishon, Magnus, and various others,

they will start talking about the shortened length of the siege.

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