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then just drop a line to editor at ancient-warfare.com. Hi everyone. It's time for another

ancient warfare magazine roundtable discussion.

I'm joined today by a regular team of commentators in reverse order of geographical distance to me in Holland.

We have Murray-Dom in Sydney, Australia, Lindsay Powell, in Austin, Texas, and Michael Taylor joining us for the last time from Kosovo.

As always, the quiet force in the background recording our chatter is Angus Wallace of the History Network. And my name is Jasper Orthaus and I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

Even in, Jens.

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Hello.

The theme of our discussion today is, as always, hooked into the theme of the previous

issue of ancient warfare, which in this case is issue 4-1.

And as I understand it, that issue has just this week reached bookstores across America, so

the galleys have arrived.

The theme of that issue is Italy before Rome, in which we looked at the Italian peninsula before it was dominated by the Roman Empire.

It's really quite a complicated story which begins in this issue with an overview of the different peoples competing for power.

The source feature, incidentally written by Michael Taylor, discusses one of the oldest inscriptions

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