Slingshot Issue 356

THE Jan/Feb edition of Slingshot, the magazine of the Society of Ancients, has a striking, if rather well-known, illustration on the cover.

Tasty outside ... and tasty contents too

There is much I found interesting, with perhaps the best being Jim Webster's article on recruitment for Persian Achaemenid armies.

I knew the empire was effectively organised on feudal lines, but I knew few details.

It never takes me long to read Slingshot, but I always feel I have got my money's worth.