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028 - Unlocking the Pontus Euxinus
In today's installment, we'll tell a tale of two cities in one sense. The age of colonization in Greece had an early leader in...
Halloween Ep. 2.0 - Manuscript Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe
Welcome to our second annual Halloween special here at the Maritime History Podcast. This year I opted for a nautical tale by the ever-popular...
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027 - Odysseus Builds a Boat
Today we fill in some gaps concerning Greek colonization, looking first at the founding of colonies along the eastern coast of Sicily. The Greeks...
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026 - Sailing Advice from Hesiod, the Farmer-Poet
At long last we make first contact with the Greeks! Today we try to cover the earliest periods of Greek colonization and expansion into...
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025 - Carthage: A New (City) Hope
This week we follow the fleeing Elissa, princess of Tyre, to Qart-ḥadašt, the "New City" that would come into wider fame as Carthage. We...
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024 - Go West, O Tyre, Go West
This week we follow the Phoenicians to the western extremity of their trade network and colonization. While it is difficult to paint a chronological...