War, trade and adventure: struggles of the Ionian Greeks

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In this episode we look at Ancient Warfare Magazine VIII.2 "War, trade and adventure: struggles of the Ionian Greeks". Angus is joined by Josho Brouwers, Murray Dahm, Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffery and Cezary Kucewicz.

"The ancient Greeks originally divided themselves into four major tribes, namely the Dorians, Aeolians, Achaeans, and Ionians. Each of these tribes also spoke a distinct dialect (Doric, Aeolic, Ionic), apart from the Achaeans, who used a form of Doric. The Athenians believed themselves to be the original Ionians and spoke a variant dialect called Attic. The focus of this issue is on the Ionian Greeks. Outside of Attica, Ionians lived on the island of Euboea, on the Cyclades, and in colonies settled in the central part of the west coast of Asia Minor, as well as on the islands off its coast, such as Chios and Samos."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. In this episode, we'll be looking at volume 8, issue 2, war, trade and adventure, struggles of the Ionian Greeks. Don't forget, if you've not read the magazine, you can find back issues at ancient-warfare.com.
0:19.1	Joining me to discuss the topic is Joshua Browse,
0:22.3	Mary Darm, Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffrey,
0:25.0	and Tessari Kutovic.
0:26.8	For those who've not read the magazine,
0:28.4	shall we start with Who Were the Ionian Greeks?
0:32.2	Yeah, it's the,
0:33.8	maybe I should talk a little bit about
0:36.4	how this issue came about because the people vote on most of the themes for ancient warfare and one of the options that the people emailed to me was about the Ionian Greeks and it seems like a really good idea to me.
0:51.6	So I put that in the options to vote on and it got
0:55.1	picked. I don't exactly remember what it was running up against, a bunch of other, okay,
0:59.3	Greek stuff, undoubtedly. And so I put it in there. Most of the proposals that I received
1:06.4	was quite obviously about the Ionian Revoltz, which are probably the most famous, when you think about the Ionian, you probably mean you to think about the Ionian revolts, which are probably the most famous.
1:11.6	You think about the Ionian, you probably mean you to think about the Ionian revolts as the prelude to the Persian Wars proper.
1:18.6	And I didn't really want to do that. I wanted to sort of try to avoid that as much as possible,
1:26.6	because usually with ancient warfare
1:28.1	we try to do something that isn't quite as obvious and on the nose as you might think.
1:34.6	So also with this particular issue, I didn't want article after article about different stuff
1:39.8	taking place during the Ionian Revolt. We'd also sort of done that with the Marathon
1:46.7	special, where we had a bit about the Ionian Revolt. So I really wanted to sort of change
1:52.0	that up. And the only thing that made it into the issue that deals with the Ionian Revolt is
1:56.7	Sydney Dean's article on the Battle of Latte, which is interesting, of course, is a defeat.
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