Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

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.

#13 in the Top 100 military All time chart

...more

2 Listeners

All episodes

Best episodes

Top 10 Ancient Warfare Podcast Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Ancient Warfare Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Ancient Warfare Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Ancient Warfare Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

AWA232 - The Language of the Roman Army

Ancient Warfare Podcast

12/31/22 • 10 min

Mason sent this question in for Murray to muse over, 'how did the language differences of auxiliary units affect armies on campaign or during battle? Were there any particular Roman generals who were multilingual'.

Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

2 Listeners

AWA233 - Military Admin

Ancient Warfare Podcast

01/06/23 • 9 min

'How did the Romans keep track of who actually completed their years of service? What's to stop you from deserting and showing up to claim your pension unfairly? Presumably, this could be tricky in an empire of mostly illiterate people from all over the known world without government driver's licenses or passports'. Murray gives us his thoughts...

Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

1 Listener

AWA234 - Envelopment of the Legion

Ancient Warfare Podcast

01/13/23 • 12 min

Mason sent in a question a few weeks ago, and here he is again with another for Murray.'If Romans were fighting and happened to get surrounded, did they have a formation for that? Did the back line and sides turn around and form a square?'

Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

1 Listener

AW235 - Piracy and Raids

Ancient Warfare Podcast

01/20/23 • 41 min

One man's pirate is another's daring raider, and the boundary between warrior and pirate can be equally nebulous. Piracy is an age-old problem without a simple solution.

The team discuss issue XVI.1 of the Ancient Warfare magazine Piracy and Raids: Robbers on the Mediterranean.

Find us on Patreon: patrion.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

Subscribe to Ancient Warfare Magazine: ancient-warfare.com

1 Listener

The emperor Claudius at war

Ancient Warfare Podcast

06/12/20 • 47 min

Though not known for his martial prowess, Claudius, like many Roman emperors before and after, needed a military victory to cement his position. Britain was the ideal target.

The team discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine XIII.6.

To watch the show live, as it's recorded, why not become a patron?

Warfare In The Ancient Near East

Ancient Warfare Podcast

12/25/08 • 35 min

Jasper is joined by Mark Schwartz and regular Murray Dahm to discuss the Campaigns of Caesar. Dur: 35min File: .mp3

AWA327 - When did Rome's conquest of Italy become inevitable?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

10/18/24 • 12 min

At what point was Roman success inevitable during Rome's wars to conquer the rest of Italy through the 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries BC? Murray gives us his thoughts.

Join us on Patron patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast