The Libyan Hano left Carthage and sailed beyond the pillars of Heracles on the Atlantic Ocean keeping Libya, Africa, on his left hand.

He sailed eastwards for 35 days, but when he turned to the south, he encountered many problems,

lack of water, burning heat, and rivers of fire flowing into the sea.

Aryan.

Indique.

Hello, my name is not Aryan, my name is Giam Lamut.

I like to start my podcast with quotes from ancient authors.

I hope it gets my audience thinking and it puts me personally into the mood.

The ancient Carthaginians which Greeks like Arian sometimes referred to as

Libofinicians, you know African Phoenicians, were not only great rivals of the Western Greek

city states such as Mesalia and Syracuse, but were also

great traders and explorers in their own right.

In my podcast, The History of Exploration, I take a look at the great voyages of discovery that allowed

our ancestors to gradually discover the world they inhabited.

The Carthaginian, Hano, sometimes called Hano the Navigator, is actually one of the first explorers that we know about in recorded history,

and so gets the star treatment in one of my podcast's earlier episodes.

The full text of his journey, which was preserved in the temple of Ball in Carthage until the Romans burned it down, details the many hardships, near misses, and terrifying encounters that this potentially greatest of Carthaginian sailor had to put up with as he sailed down the coast of West Africa.

So if you can't get enough Hano after Ryan's excellent telling of today's episode.

Why don't you come by the history of exploration and see if there might be anything there for

you?

All right Ryan, take it away.

Hello, and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece.

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