Scythed Chariots

The Ancients

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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What could be more terrifying than an army racing towards you? An army on chariots? What if those chariots had blades mounted on either side? In this episode, Tristan speaks to Dr Silvannen Gerrard about the use of this unconventional mode of transport during the Hellenistic period, particularly by the Seleucid Empire. They discuss the benefits and difficulties of using these chariots, and how they fit in with other unusual modes of troop transportation, from war-elephants to camel-archers. Silvannen is an Ancient Historian at the University of Manchester.

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0:00.0	It's the ancient's on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast
0:08.4	well it was wonderful to see how our recent episodes on the chariot in antiquity with
0:13.5	the legendary Mike Loads has been received and we got another chariot episode today because
0:18.9	one type of chariot we didn't really focus on and this was the sived chariot mainly
0:26.0	of ancient Persia of the ancient Near East not really as much to do with late Iron Age
0:32.5	Britain or that the archaeology can tell us so far anyway we're going to be focusing in
0:36.8	on the sived chariot today if you were at Chalk Valley recently if you came to our incredible
0:42.2	reenactment of the Basil of Galgamella Alexander the Great's one of his most famous most remarkable
0:48.4	victories you would have seen how we used a certain member of the audience to be a sived chariot
0:55.2	at the Basil of Galgamella and the infamous end they met that day so today you're going to be
1:00.9	learning all about the sived chariot in ancient warfare and joining me I have got back on the show
1:06.9	Dr Silvanon Gerard Silvanon has come on the podcast once before really in our really early stages
1:13.4	to talk all about war elephants she was fantastic we particularly focused on the Hellenistic Near East
1:20.3	the greatest area of ancient history if I say so myself we looked at their use by salukids
1:26.4	and the salukids once again we'll play a key role in this discussion because the salukid empire
1:32.6	this incredible huge ancient superpower it had a wide array of unusual shall we say bizarre
1:42.1	military units and the sived chariots was definitely one of those so I've been rambling on for
1:47.6	long enough now here is the one and only Silvanon Silvanon it is great have you back on the podcast
1:59.0	it's great to be here so thanks for inviting me again it's really fun to be on the show
2:04.0	no problem at all your renowns for your focus on these incredible elements of ancient Hellenistic
2:10.8	warfare last time we were talking about war elephants in the salukid army this time we're talking
2:16.2	about mainly sived chariots because Silvanon we famously see the sides on the Budakastatu
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