Hello and welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast. My name is Jasper Oerthaus and I'm the editor of

Ancient Warfare. Tonight I'm joined by Murray-Dome, Mark DeSantis, Mark McCaffrey and Lindsay Powell,

and as always, Angus Wallace of the History Network is in the studio making sure we sound good,

though of course whatever we say is our responsibility and does not reflect

on him at all. Today, we're going to discuss the latest issue 13-1, which deals with the various

warlords who were invited by the great Italian city of Torrentum at the end of the 4th and

the early 3rd century BC. We've been here before, of course, when we looked at the campaigns of Pyrus of the Pyrus in Issue 6.4.

That, however, is seven years ago, and the period is interesting.

Don't you agree, Lindsay?

Like I heard a couple of nights ago in the context of Alexandria,

in sort of the 4th century, it's between times, isn't it?

It's sort of, Greece is sort of the fourth century. It's between times, isn't it? It's sort of, it's sort of,

Greece is sort of past its best in some regards, and Rome isn't yet there. So it's,

it's an interesting 100-year period or so. It also, it also represents the first instance of

the encounter of the Roman Legion with the Macedonian Falanx as the Battle of

Heracly and 280 BC. And the whole Legion versus Falanx is one of those very different

military systems, both of which had great amounts of success over the years against varied

opponents. And this is the first of the classic matchups that we see. And there was at least three of them between Rome and Pyrrhus in a five-year period.

I think it's interesting that in this issue, I think it's about the only way you can

legitimately have in not even a century, but just over half a century.

You've got a Macedonian-style army.

You've got actual Spartans, although they're not classic Spartans.

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