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Episode B30 Matr Kestror. The same The Samianians ships made for the narrow headland jutting from the north shore of the

propontas. Landing on the beach a hundred strong, the men climbed the rugged hillside to take in their new home.

The Cape had the welcoming curve of a Greek amphitheatre, and the sea lanes that crossed it promised rich trade.

But first the fire, brought with care from their home city, was used to light a local altar, making the firm connection to Samos and her

divine protector, Hera. It wasn't unusual to name the colony after the group's leader. The aristocrat who'd lay out

the city divide the land and establish its form of government. If this was the case, both leader and colony, were called Parenthos.

At the time of its foundation, in 602 BC, the Neo-Asscyrian Empire had just been destroyed, and its territories carved up by the Meads and Babylonians.

The most powerful local ruler was Aliates, the king of Lydia, both antagonist and protector of Ionian Greeks.

The colony's early year saw more of the latter as

olyatis defended the region against repeated median attacks.

But the decades that followed saw the young Persian Empire conquer media, then Lydia, then the whole of Anatolia.

Before long back in Samos, the tyrant Polycraties took power and began his dangerous intrigues with the Egyptians and the Persians.

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