The Phoenician World
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Imagine you are a traveller sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek world—it was the Phoenician. Based in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and other cities along the coast of present-day Lebanon, the Phoenicians spread out across the Mediterranean building posts, towns, and ports. To shine a light on the Phoenician World, with a particular focus on the Phoenician presence in southern Spain, Tristan was joined by Dr Carolina Lopez-Ruiz from the Ohio State University, author of 'Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean.'
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Engines on History Hit. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast we'll last week we finally got around |
| 0:19.7 | to talking about the Assyrians and this week we're talking about the Phoenicians. |
| 0:25.5 | Finally these extraordinary people who lived in the region of present-day Lebanon in the |
| 0:30.8 | Eastern Mediterranean but in the early first millennium BC they spread out across the |
| 0:36.6 | Mediterranean and arguably helped create the first global Mediterranean in antiquity. |
| 0:44.6 | Now to talk about the Phoenician world I was delighted to get on the podcast Dr. Carolina |
| 0:49.8 | Lopez Ruiz, a professor of classics at the Ohio State University. |
| 0:55.2 | Carolina she's just written a book all about the Phoenicians and their making of the Mediterranean. |
| 1:01.2 | It was great to get on the podcast. |
| 1:03.3 | We talk about Phoenician colonization, how we should define Phoenician colonization in antiquity. |
| 1:10.3 | We're going to be mentioning famous cities of antiquities such as Tia, Carthage and Gadea, |
| 1:16.5 | Cadea's being one of the oldest cities in Europe, a Phoenician settlement. |
| 1:22.8 | It blows your mind really when you think about that. |
| 1:25.7 | And then we're going to be focusing in on the Phoenician presence in southern Spain in |
| 1:30.4 | the ancient region of Tartesos. |
| 1:33.4 | Why was this area of the Mediterranean? |
| 1:35.8 | The other end of the great sea to where the Phoenicians originally came from. |
| 1:40.6 | Why was this area so important to the Phoenicians? |
| 1:43.8 | What is the archaeology revealing about it? |
| 1:46.4 | What do we know about Phoenician interactions with Iron Age local populations and how did |
| 1:51.7 | they change over the many centuries that the Phoenicians were present in southern Spain? |
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