Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War

School of War

EpisodeDec 13, 202243m

Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War

School of War

EpisodeDec 13, 202243m

David M. Pritchard, Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland and author of Athenian Democracy at War, joins the show to discuss how and why ancient Athens fought its wars.▪️Times • 01:41 Introduction• 02:3 Martial culture in Athens• 05:08 Democracy and victory• 11:42 Innovation and participation• 15:38 Joining up in ancient Athens• 19:10 Broad support for war• 24:43 Military morality • 30:49 Control of the battlefield is victory• 38:28 Democracy and war today

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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...

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