The end of empire: the fall of Rome

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast Angus, Josho, Lindsay and Mark discuss volume 9, issue 1 "The end of empire: the fall of Rome"

"On 4 September AD 476, the Western Roman Empire came to an end. No great battle was fought, no great foreign invasion force marched upon the capital, nor was there an iconic enemy in the shape of a second Hannibal who annihilated Rome’s armies and broke down the emperor’s gates. Odoacer of the Germanic Sciri tribe and military commander in Rome’s employ, simply marched into the city of Ravenna after being proclaimed king by his troops, and dethroned the last Roman Emperor in the West."

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast.
0:04.1	In this episode, we'll be talking about volume 9, issue 1, the end of empire, the fall of Rome.
0:12.5	Joining me to discuss the topic are regulars Joshua Browers, Lindsay Powell and Mark McCaffrey.
0:20.4	Before we kick off Joshua, do you want to give us an update on ancient history magazine?
0:24.6	Yeah, the issue is coming along nicely.
0:27.6	We have quite a variety of different writers, including an article by Mark McCaffrey, who's here in the podcast with us on the vigilates it's about exploration in the
0:42.8	ancient world so it's got stuff on Herodotus on explorations by definitions
0:49.8	it has a really great centerfold that I will be blogging about at some point also
0:56.6	made by Johnny Shumade about featuring gorillas I will leave the exact details to the
1:06.0	imagination but it's gonna it's great fun it's it's very pulpy um and yeah it will be out soon
1:15.7	is that going concern and we gain one every every um every two months yeah so the the Kickstarter was
1:23.3	uh we did the kickstarter the beginning of this year or in the spring more or
1:28.4	so we're successfully funded we got enough money for two issues and we're just
1:34.1	gonna continue with it it's gonna be a going concern one of the other
1:39.9	magazines that we're doing now so if you haven't subscribed yet and you think it's
1:44.9	worth supporting you should subscribe or make your decision after picking up the
1:50.0	first issue if you haven't subscribed yet. It'll appear every two months just like
1:55.7	ancient warfare, medieval warfare and war game soldiers and strategy. Unlike AW and MW, this is not 60 pages but 68 pages
2:05.7	because of the scope of the subject matter we felt it would be better if it was
2:11.5	slightly thicker than ancient warfare or medieval warfare.
2:16.8	So eight extra pages to fill with especially
2:20.3	non-themed related stuff because we want to give people a little bit more breathing room to also cover stuff that's not
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