Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up across across southern Italy and Sicily. These new foundations would become the heart of the Greek world, just as Greek in every way as the better-known cities of Greece itself.

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0:06.0	The Man looked out at the clear blue waters of the sea.
0:21.0	The waves laps gently onto the white sand, slapping at the wooden timbers of the two
0:24.9	ships grounded on the beach.
0:27.2	He nodded in satisfaction and muttered to himself, turning thoughts over in his head.
0:32.0	This really was a perfect spot, just as the sailors had told him back home in the Greek
0:35.8	city of Korif.
0:37.6	The cove on the other side of the jutting headland offered a protected anchorage for larger
0:41.3	vessels and a convenient river just to its south.
0:44.6	There was a fresh water spring just up from the beach, a place that passing ships often
0:48.5	used to take on water for the next leg of their long voyage to the metal-rich land of the
0:53.3	atreskins.
0:54.9	A broad flat plain stretched out inland.
0:58.0	Its dark volcanic soil offered the promise of rich harvests to come.
1:02.4	He could picture it all.
1:03.6	The neat rectangular blocks of land laid out with stakes, parceled out to the hundred people
1:07.9	who had made the journey here to Sicily with him, growing first into houses, then temples
1:12.3	and marketplaces, all of it surrounded by city walls, the bustling beach jammed with
1:16.8	sea traffic.
1:17.8	Yes, he thought this was perfect.
1:20.5	He would found this settlement complete with a shrine to Apollo Arcagetes, Apollo the founder
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