Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Located in modern day Ukraine, Olbia was the largest ancient Greek settlement on the coast of the Black Sea. A mix of Scythian and Greek culture, Olbia interacted with settlements and cultures across the ancient world.
In this episode, Tristan is joined by Dr Owen Rees to talk about the fascinating and wonderful history of this peripheral city state - that despite all odds, managed not only to survive, but ultimately thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast will I'm particularly excited about |
| 0:19.8 | this episode today because this is a topic that I've been wanting to do for some time |
| 0:24.8 | now. |
| 0:25.8 | I've been fascinated for years about these places, these city-states, these locations |
| 0:31.8 | that were on the periphery of the Greek world in antiquity, whether it's incredible |
| 0:37.1 | city-states like Cyrene in North Africa, in Montaic, Cironaica, or Ancient Missalia, |
| 0:43.0 | Monde Marseille, Greek city-states in Spain too, and also in the Black Sea. |
| 0:49.0 | And one of the most extraordinary Greek hybrid city-states that you get emerging on the |
| 0:55.0 | coastline of the Black Sea in the first millennium BC is this city called Albia. |
| 1:02.6 | Today, the archaeological remains of Albia are situated very close to what is Montaille |
| 1:07.6 | Odessa, so it's not too far away from the front lines currently of the Russian Ukraine |
| 1:13.2 | war. |
| 1:14.2 | But Albia has a rich and incredible history and I wanted to share it with you today. |
| 1:19.2 | I wanted to talk about Albia. |
| 1:20.2 | It's been a long time coming. |
| 1:22.6 | Unfortunately, we've got a great expert to tell you through the story of this ancient |
| 1:26.0 | city today because when I headed up to Manchester a few weeks ago, you'll recall that I did |
| 1:33.4 | chat to Dr Owen Reese and we talked all about the March of the 10,000. |
| 1:38.8 | Now when we released that podcast, I hinted that we had recorded a second separate episode |
| 1:43.5 | with Owen and this is it because Owen is also an expert on these peripheral parts of |
| 1:50.6 | the ancient Greek world. |
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