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🗓️ 19 October 2012
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Jasper and the team are joined by Josho Brouwers to discus warfare in archaic Greece. After Michael's summary of the period we go on to look at the phalanx, how it might function, the equipment the men carried, the suitability of the geography for this type of fighting and what that meant for the numbers of men deployed in the field.
Also touched upon is why the cities fought one another, was it just drunken Greeks tooled up and spoiling for a fight to assert their manliness?
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0:33.0 | Hi everyone. We're back with an Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. |
0:36.6 | And this time we're going to discuss Ancient Warfare Iss issue 6-1, from Heroes to Hoplites, |
0:42.0 | warfare and archaic Greece. |
0:44.2 | Today, joining me as always are Michael Taylor, Murray Dom, and Lindsay Powell. |
0:50.2 | And today we also have a special guest in the person of Yoshobrower's. |
0:55.4 | He wrote for Ancient Warfare before about Homer for one, but his specialty is really this period. |
1:02.0 | So we figured it would be a good time to ask him to join us and teach you something more about this particular period. |
1:09.9 | But as always, we want to start off with a short introduction by Michael. |
1:13.6 | So, Michael. |
1:14.6 | Okay, so the archaic age is going to be roughly defined from a period around 800 BC, |
1:21.6 | when Greek communities start to recover from the so-called Dark Age, |
1:26.6 | and of course Dark Age is a problematic term. But there do |
1:29.8 | seem to be some major changes around the year 800 as we start seeing communities expressing themselves |
1:36.2 | in sort of a more complex way, an increase in the population of cemeteries, and a general |
1:41.5 | increase in the sort of the sophistication of the material culture. |
1:44.3 | This is all around 800 BC. |
1:46.3 | And the archaic age will officially end in 480 BC. |
1:51.2 | This is just a historical definition with the defeat of the Persians |
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