Our next two episodes cover the period of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean region. The first program will give an insight as to what happened in that period of catastrophe and anarchy which may well be the inspiration of Homer's Iliad stories. The second program is a podcast telling the story of the Phoenicians and their expansion from the eastern Mediterranean coast along the North African coast as well as Cyprus, Sardinia and Southern Spain and to South West Britain. Whilst they were mostly aggressive traders they established the Carthaginian empire. One of the interesting stories as to the origin of the term Pyrrhic Victory.
The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse
The Punic Empires of Phoenicia and Carthage
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