A fun chat about many things to do with ancient warfare and its modern reception. Reconstructing ancient history requires imagination as well as research, and I tried to articulate the difference between "it is possible, but..." and "it is possible, therefore..." approaches to that fact
A slight retranslation courtesy of @roelkonijn.bsky.social asking me how to render "polytropos":
"Oi, sheila, tell me about that shifty cunt who went walkabout after he absolutely rooted Troy"
Roel Konijnendijk
Jonathan Dean
Tell me, sheila, of the bloke on walkabout
Today on AOH, Dr. @roelkonijn.bsky.social, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford, discusses psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity,Greek ambivalence about war’s glory and horror, & myth-busts Sparta as less uniquely militarist than popularly imagined.
