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Hi, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray.

Your weekly fix of Ancient Warfare ranting and raving.

Ten minutes, roughly.

I don't make any promises.

So there's all sorts of what you might expect in any large corporatized workforce.

All of that stuff, good and bad, is happening there rather than it being sort of a seamless process.

So I hope that answers your question, Mary, and look forward to answering another one of your questions on Ancient Warfare Answers.

hi everyone welcome to a special ancient warfare podcast this is a what we call an in-betweener uh and we're very lucky on this episode because i am joined by robert l o'connell who's written a new book uh banned on the run fabulous title um of course uh for those of us of a certain age also the name of a wing song and i do believe that uh if you look up band on the run you will find an autobiography of the the band wings which for those of you who don't know was Paul McCartney's band after the Beatles, but that is not what your book is about, Robert.

Welcome, and thank you for your exploration of this amazing adventure story.

Well, thank you.

And, you know, the Rhodian sling is on there, you know, slinging because it's a sort of a national trait.

All of these wonderful anecdotes and things like that are, yeah, it's always a wonderful way to think about parallels, even when things have completely changed.

We could probably talk for a long time about military revolutions, about how they may occur in ancient warfare, not quite the same speed with which they've occurred in the last sort of five years since we've seen it happen.

But I think the fascinating thing is that the appeal of ancient literature is always a fascinating one when you can see it at work, even in today's age.

So...

He is the author of Macedonian Phalangite versus Persian Warrior, Athenian Hoplite versus Spartan Hoplite, and Leuctra 371 BC, all from Osprey Publishing.

He is, of course, a regular writer on here, and a regular on the Ancient Warfare podcast.

The Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC is remembered for his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, but he was much more than that.

Xerxes was the king of the Persian Empire from 486 until 465 BC.

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