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Hello everyone. This is Jasper Ortiz with Ancient Warfare Magazine doing another podcast.

Tonight, I'm joined by Murray Dom, as usual, Lindsay Powell, and Sydney Dean.

In my case, good evening. Good morning, everybody.

Just a couple days ago, I got an email from a very perceptive listener who had the very logical and excellent idea to begin every podcast with a slightly more extended introduction to explain what that particular issue had been about and what it had included.

So as this podcast is going to be about our third issue this year, an issue volume 3-3.

Classical Heroes, some explanation what that was about.

Classical Heroes was kind of a wide-ranging theme that left plenty of opportunity of ranging

throughout ancient history, and that's exactly what occurred.

It should come as no surprise that the theme introduction started with the source for

most ancient virtues and therefore the basis for what a hero is, and that would of course

be Homer.

His epics, and especially the Iliad, established for future generations how an ancient warrior

should behave.

He should always strive to be the best at everything and excel.

It stands to reason then that both the introduction and the source feature of this issue dealt with Homer.

Actual warfare in the Homeric era was, how that worked was perhaps a bit more, um, bit different than the very

classic images, uh, as given by Homer, uh, which was explained by Michael Taylor.

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