The Mediterranean World in 500 BC

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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After our long sojourn in Central, East, and South Asia, it's time to return to a Mediterranean on the cusp of enormous changes. Around 500 BC, Rome was shedding its kings, Carthage was about to become the greatest power in the Central Mediterranean, and Greece would soon enter its Classical Era. Let's take a tour.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
0:04.0	Download the app today. It was a fine day to be out on the Aegean seat just a few hours sail away from the
0:20.2	welcoming harbor of Ijena.
0:23.3	The sailors knew the luxuries that awaited them on shore.
0:26.7	Cheap wine, lamb coated in honey and roasted on skewers, laughter and songs and dry land
0:32.4	underneath their feet.
0:34.0	They fancied that they could smell the roasting lamb now over the salt of the sea breeze that filled their sails and pushed the ship onward toward land.
0:41.0	It was in sight now. They could see the unfinished
0:45.3	harbour of Athens, the Piraeus, in the distance ahead of them. But in their opinion,
0:50.0	at least for now, Igina had the better port, better food like those lam skewers and cheaper
0:54.8	wine.
0:57.2	The sailors argued among themselves as they drew nearer.
1:00.3	One made the case for a pork dish he had sampled in a trury a years before, something cooked in wine.
1:05.7	Another said that a slab of beef with sweetened porridge, the product of a tavern in Egypt,
1:10.1	was the
1:15.0	Carthage was better. Carthaginians added cheese, eggs, and honey.
1:17.0	It was just what a man needed after weeks at sea.
1:20.0	They were all wrong, said another.
1:22.0	What they did with shellfish and Byzantium was They were all wrong, said another.
1:23.2	What they did with shellfish and bizantium was exquisite, better than any of those dishes.
1:28.4	Clearly, hard-bred, sour drink and salted meat had taken their toll on the sailors. Even more than wine, food was on their minds.
1:37.6	There was the harbor now coming up ahead of them. They passed two of Igenus tri-rooms, low, low sleek warships as they entered the little bay.
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