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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 6, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a people from the Levant who were accomplished sailors and traders, and who taught the Greeks their alphabet. He called them the Phoenicians, the Greek word for purple, although it is not known what they called themselves. By about 700 BC they were trading all over the Mediterranean, taking Egyptian and Syrian goods as far as Spain and North Africa. Although they were hugely influential in the ancient world, they left few records of their own; some contemporary scholars believe that the Phoenicians were never a unified civilisation but a loose association of neighbouring city-states.
With:
Mark Woolmer
Assistant Principal at Collingwood College, Durham University
Josephine Quinn
Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford
Cyprian Broodbank
Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London
Producer: Thomas Morris.
With:
Mark Woolmer
Assistant Principal at Collingwood College, Durham University
Josephine Quinn
Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford
Cyprian Broodbank
Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London
Producer: Thomas Morris.
Released:
Feb 6, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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