War as a livelihood - Mercenaries in the Ancient world

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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

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🗓️ 4 March 2009

⏱️ 37 minutes

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War as a livelihood - Mercenaries in the Ancient world Jasper is joined by Michael Taylor, Paul Bardunias and Albert Perez Rubio to discuss Mercenaries in the acient world. Dur: 37min File: .mp3 For more information on the magazine go to www.ancient-warfare.com and comments, questions or suggestions email them to [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
0:15.4	ancient warfare forum, which you can find a link to at www.com.
0:21.6	You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to
0:28.6	www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:32.6	Hello everyone, this is the first podcast of Ancient Warfare Magazine for the new year.
0:39.3	Tonight we're discussing mercenaries to tie in with our first issue of 2009.
0:44.3	And tonight joining me are Paul Berdunius in Hollywood, Florida. Hi, Paul.
0:49.3	Hello.
0:50.3	Alberto Perez Rubio in Spain.
0:52.3	Hello.
0:53.3	And Michael Taylor on the phone from California.
0:58.0	Ah, hello.
0:58.9	To dive into the questions of mercenaries, I suppose we have to figure out first what exactly is a mercenary
1:06.0	because we have various kinds of soldiers who fight for different nations.
1:13.1	They're allied soldiers. They're allied contingents.
1:14.9	You've got Rome Sochiye.
1:17.4	There's real mercenaries. There's professional soldiers.
1:23.5	I mean, okay, a mercenary is somebody who is paid for being a soldier in anywhere but as native country?
1:25.9	I guess you'd have to call it that, right?
1:27.7	Because you could be hired within your native country, but would you be considered a mercenary?
1:31.0	I don't know.
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