The Roots of Archaic Greece

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however, it underwent a remarkable transformation. Greece's population exploded, cities came into being, long-distance trade boomed, and the first overseas colonies - the beginnings of an extended Greek world - had been founded. The roots of a recognizable ancient Greece had begun to sprout.

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0:06.0	Her breath came in gasps as she made her way up the path that wound its way up the hillside.
0:23.6	She paused, took a swig of water from her skin and put her hand on an outcropping of grey
0:27.7	white limestone.
0:29.7	It was still cool, not yet warmed by the sun rising over the hills to the east.
0:34.5	Before moving on, she reached down into the leather bag she carried slung over her shoulder.
0:39.2	Her hand closed around the clay figurines just to be sure they were still there.
0:43.4	The other went reflexively to her swollen abdomen.
0:46.3	On cue, she felt the baby kick.
0:49.6	Slowly, her breath coming back, the woman continued her climb.
0:53.1	Not much further now to the top, she thought, her hand still resting on her stomach.
0:57.2	The baby kicked again.
0:58.9	Not much further till that, either, she thought, and she should know.
1:02.3	This was her sixth pregnancy, and each time she had delivered a healthy, living child
1:06.2	without complications.
1:08.3	That made her a rarity, and she knew precisely how lucky she was.
1:12.3	Too many of the girls she'd known in her childhood and women she'd known down in the cluster
1:16.0	of villages hadn't survived.
1:18.3	She had seen it herself.
1:19.8	The pain, the blood, the fevers afterward, a gauntlet of trials and risks that had claimed
1:24.1	so many lives.
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