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Motya was going to die. And Motya knew it. In the intense heat of the summer of 397, the Motyans stood behind their defe... Read more

Gela was a Doric city, founded in 688 BC by Greeks from the islands of Rhodes and Crete. It was the metropolis of Acraga... Read more

During the 415 - 413 BC Athenian invasion of Sicily, a Syracusan aristocrat named Hermocrates had become the hero of the... Read more

With ten episodes on Carthaginian history under our collective belts, we have come to a close on what we can call the “e... Read more

Last time, we had taken a look at how after the Battle of Himera, Carthage went through what was probably a voluntary pr... Read more

In the last episode, we had looked a crucial battle in the history of Carthage, that of Himera. We examined the long cha... Read more

In the last episode, we began looking at Carthage's interactions with other civilizations active in the Mediterranean du... Read more

In the last episode, we took a look at Carthage's early kings. We examined the stories of the first four kings of the ci... Read more

In the last episode, we examined the three Carthaginian founding myths that the Greco-Roman literature describes. We loo... Read more

In the previous episodes, I've summarized as briefly as I could the history of Tyre's colonization of the Mediterranean,... Read more