Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. In this episode,

we'll be looking at volume 12, issue four, the power of Poseidon, the successors take to the sea.

Joining me are regulars Jasper Otage, Matt McCaffrey, Mark DeSantis, and Murray Dam. So, Jasper, Naval Warfare is very much your

bag. So do you want to kick us off? I mean, what period are we looking at? Why do you choose it as

important to investigate in the magazine? You know, I enjoy studying the Roman era because there's so much evidence and it just, you know,

keeps piling up and you can go to so much detail.

But the Hellenistic period, I think, is, to me, gets more and more interesting because

it's such a period of invention and competition and completely lacking sources and there's a

but that but at the same time there's a lot of innovative research being done

trying teasing out everything we can from those sources that are there. And I wanted to look at the period of Hellenistic Naval Warfare,

because if you mentioned that to the fans of ancient warfare,

everybody goes, oh, the big ships, and the period of gigantism.

And that's really only a tiny part of that whole era.

Because by the time we get to, you know, the famous stories of the Romans first going to sea,

which is not really true, but, you know, Furf Punic War,

that the period of the really big galleys is it's not over because

the you know the famous 40

post dates that

but it's pretty obvious that their real use

seems to have been

is over or

uh the people found other reasons to you

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