Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. Why did early civilisations fight? Who were their Generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. Warfare minus two thousand years.

AWA359 - Who are your go-to translators for your favourite texts?
May 30, 2025 – 08:53
AWA358 - What was an oblique phalanx?
May 23, 2025 – 14:04
AWA357 - What was the least influential weapon on the ancient battlefield?
May 16, 2025 – 08:53
AW356 - New discoveries in Ancient Warfare 2025
May 9, 2025 – 37:36
AWA355 - Did small built-up areas play a role in ancient battlefields?
May 2, 2025 – 08:43
AWA354 - Why did ancient armies have few ranged units compared to line infantry?
Apr 25, 2025 – 13:07
AWA353 - Who were ancient scouts?
Apr 18, 2025 – 11:05
AW352 - Tiberius
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:22:45
AWA351 - What would be your ideal military?
Apr 4, 2025 – 11:03
AWA349 - Were there any inspiring elites in ancient warfare?
Mar 21, 2025 – 11:37
AW348 - Greece in the fourth century BC
Mar 14, 2025 – 33:47
AWA347 - Questions about Masada and Josephus (part II)
Mar 7, 2025 – 09:42
AWA346 - Questions about Masada and Josephus
Feb 28, 2025 – 10:35
AWA350 - What do we know about the early life of Marcus Furius Camillus?
Feb 28, 2025 – 11:37
AWA345 - Why didn't Rome's adversaries emulate her?
Feb 21, 2025 – 10:27
AW344 - Roman Soldier vs Dacian Warrior
Feb 14, 2025 – 45:53
AWA343 - Which type of armor did the legions under Caesar and Augustus use?
Feb 7, 2025 – 11:26
AWA342 - How vulnerable were armies during the Bronze and Iron Ages to lightning strikes?
Jan 31, 2025 – 11:39
AWA341 - What really happened at the battle of Lugdunum, 197 AD?
Jan 24, 2025 – 14:54
AWA340 - Usurpers legions and provinces
Jan 17, 2025 – 16:41
AW339 - Single Combat in Antiquity
Jan 10, 2025 – 46:34
AWA338 - Lambdas and ancient Greek shield devices
Jan 3, 2025 – 12:57
AWA337 - Legions and Foederati
Dec 27, 2024 – 10:47
AWA336 - Did ancient armies catapult corpses into enemy cities?
Dec 20, 2024 – 10:07
AW335 - Gladiator II
Dec 13, 2024 – 46:40
AWA334 - Were the reasons for war in ancient times any different to the modern era?
Dec 6, 2024 – 08:26
AWA333 - Was there ever king versus king single combat?
Nov 29, 2024 – 10:45
AWA332 - Why were there no invasions of Macedonia or Greece while Alexander was in Asia?
Nov 22, 2024 – 11:19
AWA331 - What effect did the Hunnic invasions into Western Europe have on Britain?
Nov 15, 2024 – 10:50
AW330 - Legio X Fretensis
Nov 8, 2024 – 41:23
AWA329 - What defines heavy infantry in the ancient world?
Nov 1, 2024 – 12:11
AWA328 - What armour did Macedonian and late Hellenistic Phalangites wear?
Oct 25, 2024 – 11:41
AWA327 - When did Rome's conquest of Italy become inevitable?
Oct 18, 2024 – 12:55
AW326 - The Most Influential Weapon in the Ancient World
Oct 11, 2024 – 50:10
AWA325 - What ideas did the Hellenistic kingdoms adopt from the lands they ruled?
Oct 4, 2024 – 10:15
AWA324 - The last recorded legion
Sep 27, 2024 – 11:38
AWA323 - How were new legions raised?
Sep 20, 2024 – 14:58
AW322 - The Persian Wars
Sep 13, 2024 – 42:05
AWA321 - When was the first wargame?
Sep 6, 2024 – 11:10
AWA320 - How accurate is the 'Last Kingdom'?
Aug 30, 2024 – 11:31
AWA319 - Visually Distinct Ancient Armies
Aug 23, 2024 – 12:42
AWA318 - The Hunnic siege of Naissus
Aug 16, 2024 – 10:07
AW317 - Gladiator II
Aug 9, 2024 – 46:54
AWA316 - The Fate of the Ninth Legion
Aug 2, 2024 – 14:54
AWA315 - What happened when a legion was transferred
Jul 26, 2024 – 09:01
AWA314 - What really happened at the battle of Panium, 200 BC
Jul 19, 2024 – 12:28
AW313 - Rome's Many Enemies
Jul 12, 2024 – 43:30
AWA312 - What do we really know about massed ancient archery?
Jul 5, 2024 – 10:12
AWA311 - Pet Peeves and Music
Jun 28, 2024 – 10:01
AWA310 - A first ancient wargame
Jun 21, 2024 – 10:41