What did Ancient Battles REALLY Look Like? | The Battle Model Everyone Should Know!

You can download the new Karwansaray Publishers App here. Use our code "HISTORIA" until October 15th for three days of unlimited access to all magazines: https://onelink.to/k8yv2r Sign up here to get physical copies of KP magazines shipped straight to your door: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com Using historical sources, reenactment experiments, and a detailed 2D battle animation, this video aims to model the movement and behavior of soldiers on the battlefield and examine what ancient combat may have looked like. All of this paints a clearer picture of what soldiers felt, how generals commanded them, the extreme pressures of battle and psychology, from the moment armies formed their battle lines to the chaos of close combat, crowd behavior, casualties, and routs. As an added bonus, we explore what Hollywood gets right, what it gets wrong, and what is usually left out entirely. This video is one our all-time finest works on the channel. From the countless sources we had to read and summarize, to the animation of every single circle, the workload was intense. But I believe the final result is something quite revolutionary and unique, presenting a final 2D representation of battles on the small-scale, accurate to the latest research and experiments we came across. The video stands as a must-watch for any fan of ancient warfare! Primary Sources: -Polyb. 15. 12-13. -Polyb. 11. 20-22. -Caes. BCiv. 3. 91-92. -Caes. BGall. 1. 25. -Plut. Ant. 39. 4. -Sall. Cat. 60.1. -Tac. Ann. 14. 35. Secondary Sources: -Armstrong, J. & Fronda, M. P. Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic. Routledge: London and New York. 2020. -Cowan, R. “The Clashing of Weapons and Silent Advances in Roman Battles” in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 56, 1, 2007, 114-117. -Chrissanthos, S. G. “Freedom of Speech and the Roman Republican Army” in Sluiter, I. & Rosen, R. M. Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, Brill: Leiden & Boston. 2004, 341-368. -Daly, G. Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War: Routledge: London & New York. 2002. -Koon, S. Infantry Combat in Livy’s Battle Narratives.BAR International Series 2071, BAR:Oxford, 2010. -Lendon, J. E. Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. Yale University Press: New Haven. 2005. -Melchior, A. “Caesar in Vietnam: Did Roman Soldiers Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?” in Greece & Rome, V. 58. 2, October 2011, 209 - 223. -Sabin, P. “Battle” in Sabin, P; Van Wees, H; Whitby, M: The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare Volume 1, Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2008. 399-433. -Sabin, P. “The Mechanics of Battle in the Second Punic War”, in Cornell, T; Rankov, B; Sabin, P. (eds.) The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Sup. 67, 60-79. -Sabin, P. “The Roman Face of Battle” in The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 90, 2000, 1-17. -Campillo-Rubio, X; Valdés Matías, P; Ble, E. “Centurions in the Roman Legion: Computer Simulation and Complex Systems” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, V. 46, 2, 2015, 245-266. -Zhmodikov, A. “Roman Republican Heavy Infantrymen in Battle (IV-II Centuries B.C.)” in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 49, 1, 2000, 67-78.