Episode 1.14 – The Death of Motya
Motya was going to die. And Motya knew it. In the intense heat of the summer of 397, the Motyans stood behind their defensive walls, which they had ju...
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Historyteller is semi-monthly podcast that focuses on weaving true tales from ancient sources with contemporary archaeological data to give a true historical storytelling experience. Current: The History of Carthage
Episode 1.13 – Enter Dionysius – Part II – The Battle of Gela
Gela was a Doric city, founded in 688 BC by Greeks from the islands of Rhodes and Crete. It was the metropolis of Acragas. She was built on a long low...
Episode 1.12 – Enter Dionysius – Part I – The Fall of Acragas
During the 415 - 413 BC Athenian invasion of Sicily, a Syracusan aristocrat named Hermocrates had become the hero of the day, by uniting all the Sicil...
Episode 1.11 – Revenge of the Magonids
With ten episodes on Carthaginian history under our collective belts, we have come to a close on what we can call the “early history” of Carthage. Fro...
Episode 1.10 – The Punic Empire
Last time, we had taken a look at how after the Battle of Himera, Carthage went through what was probably a voluntary program of austerity which corre...
Episode 1.9 – Atlantic Adventures
In the last episode, we had looked a crucial battle in the history of Carthage, that of Himera. We examined the long chain of causes that lead to the ...
Episode 1.8 – The Battle of Himera
In the last episode, we began looking at Carthage's interactions with other civilizations active in the Mediterranean during the sixth century BC. We ...
Episode 1.7 – Carthage & the Mediterranean
In the last episode, we took a look at Carthage's early kings. We examined the stories of the first four kings of the city. We used the four kings as ...
Episode 1.6 – The Early Kings
In the last episode, we examined the three Carthaginian founding myths that the Greco-Roman literature describes. We looked at the legend of Elissa an...
Episode 1.5 – The Founding of Carthage
In the previous episodes, I've summarized as briefly as I could the history of Tyre's colonization of the Mediterranean, and the circumstances that le...