Hello, hello and welcome to the 100th episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast.

Tonight I've got with me the whole team, Lindsay Powell, Mike Cole, Mark DeSantis, Mike McCaffrey,

Marie Daum and myself Jasper Ortiz. And we got a load of questions, well yeah, quite a few, that we will try to go through in an hour because people have to leave again

and we don't want to make this an endless sitting for you guys.

Let's do a marathon podcast.

Let's do a 24 hour.

It's a live episode, so people are watching.

We'll see that we actually manage to speak with lots of ums and

az instead of the ones without like you usually hear when angus has edited our stuff so we just go

from from the top an easy one marcus from patreon asks if i have a broad question about identifying bias in ancient Roman source materials

to help judge the validity of some of the statements they make.

For example, I enjoy Appian civil wars,

but how can I find out about Appian's political leanings and biases?

So my question is,

is there a good modern reference that can be used to identify the bias in a given source?

Right.

So the next 10 episodes of the ancient warfare podcast will be.

Real quick, who can do that one?

I will take an initial stab.

And this is, of course, you're getting at the heart of what history is, right?

Exactly.

So John Ma is a professor at Columbia, who I know on Twitter.

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