Episode 25 – The Voyage of Solon

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 6 April 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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“Ahmose became a lover of the Hellenes; and besides other proofs of friendship which he gave to several among them, he also granted the city of Naucratis for those of them who came to Egypt to dwell in; and to those who did not desire to stay, but who made voyages thither, he granted portions of land to set up altars and make sacred enclosures for their gods. Their greatest enclosure and that one which has most name and is most frequented is called the Hellenion, and this was established by the following cities in common: –of the Ionians Chios, Teos, Phocaia, Clazomenai, of the Dorians Rhodes, Cnidos, Halicarnassos, Phaselis, and of the Aiolians Mytilene alone.“ – Heroditus After his overthrow of Apries, the pharaoh Ahmose II increased Egyptian prosperity by centralizing and facilitating Greek trade at Naucratis. King Alyattes used Lydia’s vast mineral wealth to maintain a powerful army and mint the world’s first coins. Thales and the philosophers of the Milesian school introduced rationality and scientific inquiry into their studies of the cosmos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	Episode 25, The Voyage of Solon.
1:16.2	Around 5.90 BC, as the great lawgiver Solon of Athens was preparing for his extended Mediterranean cruise. He received a letter from a friend and colleague offering him the hospitality of Ionia. If you leave Athens, it seems to me that you could most conveniently set up your abode in Melitis, which is an Athenian colony, for there you incur no risk.
1:30.0	If you are vexed at the thought that we are governed by a tyrant, hating as you do all absolute rulers,
1:37.0	you would at least enjoy the society of your friends.
1:40.0	Bias wrote inviting you to Prying, and if you prefer the town of Prying for a residence,
1:45.8	I myself will come and live with you.
1:49.5	As it turns out, this letter, recorded by the third century
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