Y'all should check this out - it was a really interesting lecture about both the important of cavalry in Seleukid armies but also about the ways that we understand numbers (particularly counts of soldiers) in our ancient sources.https://twitter.com/WingedBookWyrm/status/1428742903443165186 …
-
Thanks for the retweet, and for your question following the paper. I'm glad you enjoyed the lecture!
It was a good lecture. The Seleukid army is, frankly, criminally understudied. And I think you hit on something real - there are a lot of assumptions about how much cavalry armies use that don't survive exposure to the actual numbers very well.
