(~330 BCE · Sardinia, Marseilles, & the Sea Between)
The Narrator survives a terrible shipwreck in a storm at sea, only to be rescued by a man named Pytheas who should be included among history’s greatest explorers, but sadly his name is only remembered at all because so many geographers called him a liar.
Based on Chapter 8 of Middle by Geoff Micks.
A stone-carving of a Phoenician ship.
Massalia as a Greek city-state. Note the boat sheds for housing triremes.
Pytheas Buys Amber by Olive Carleton Smyth.
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Credits:
Voice Acting – Geoff Micks
Editing – Geoff Micks
Music – Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay
Additional Music – Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay
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