The Rise of Carthage

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Carthage is known mostly as Rome's great rival, but it was a fascinating and meaningful Mediterranean civilization in its own right. Today, we track the rise of Carthage from its foundation as a Phoenician colony to the cusp of imperial ambitions in the Mediterranean around 500 BC.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.3	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. They could still see the smoke rising from the village, the ugly grayish black smudge ascending into the bright blue summer sky.
0:26.3	It was a place the ship's captain had known well.
0:30.0	The wide beach with its collection of fishing boats drawn up onto the sand.
0:34.6	The thatched roof huts clustered on the low hill looking down at the water.
0:38.7	The fields of grain, the sheep pens, the stone tower looming a bit further inland, the laughter of the children playing
0:45.2	on the slip.
0:47.5	He had stopped here many times to take on water or provisions during his voyages to the ports
0:52.3	of Atruria and Campania.
0:55.2	Now it had all been put to the torch.
0:57.3	The residents carried off and the captain was angry.
1:01.5	These people, residents of the coastline of Sardinia, had done nothing wrong.
1:06.2	They were simple folk, farmers, and fishermen, and these Greek pirates had come and destroyed
1:10.6	their homes, killed a few, and carried more off into slavery. The sight of it was more than he could bear, and he just hoped that some had managed to escape into the hills.
1:22.0	He spat over the side of the low sleek warship. The vessels whole cut through the waves, barely disturbing the gentle swells.
1:30.0	It was a fine ship, a recent product of the shipyards of Carthage, powered by a single sail most of the time in banks of wars when necessary with a ram at the front.
1:40.0	A company of hardened soldiers waited on the deck, having swords, spears, and bows, and like their captain, they were ready for a fight.
1:49.0	These Greeks, Fakians from the Ionian coast of the Aegean, if they'd heard right, were newcomers to these waters.
1:55.6	They did a bit of trading and a bit of farming, but the newest arrivals seemed to prefer piracy and raiding
2:00.8	to legitimate work. That was why the captain and his ship were here.
2:06.0	To investigate, and if they could, put a stop to some of that.
2:10.0	These waters and the people who traveled on them were under the protection of Carthage and piracy would not be tolerated.
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