Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode, we'll be looking at volume 12, issue two, wild allies and enemies, Thracians in the

4th century. With me to discuss the topic is Jasperortage, Mary Dame, Mark DeSantis, Lindsay Powell and Mike Cole.

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Jasper, who were the Theretians? Why have you devoted an issue of the magazine to them?

For the first, for our main, For our main ancient topics, the Romans and Greeks, there's a few sort of standard, you know,

the standard barbarian threats.

And for the Romans, it's the Celts and maybe later it's the Germans, but mostly the Celts, really. And for the Romans, it's the Celts, and maybe later it's the Germans, but mostly the Celts, really.

And for the Greeks, the Thracians have seemed to have sort of a similar role early on,

but they very quickly, they start to trade with the Greeks,

and they just sit there right at the northern border of where all the

city-states are and that in itself makes it an interesting topic and it's also a

somewhat difficult topic because you know insert standard wine about sources here

but it's you know they haven't hardly I think

there's a very few sentences but in the main the Thracians have not left us any

written sources about what they did and why they did things but they have left a lot of

archaeological material and a lot of that

is not very accessible since it's in either northern Greece and mainly it's in

southeastern Bulgaria which of course was completely hidden by the behind the

iron curtain until in 1989.

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