(~590 – 332 BCE · Carthage & Tyre )
The Narrator remembers with deep regret how Alexander the Great destroyed the ancient city of Tyre whose royal women had once made a home and safe place for an immortal wanderer.
Based on Chapter 7 of Middle by Geoff Micks.
Alexander the Great.
This depiction of Alexander’s Siege of Tyre demonstrates his ingenious construction of a causeway over the sea to reach the island city. Siege towers allowed his troops to launch protective fire. (Adam Hook, from ELI 121 Ancient Siege Warfare: Persians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans 546-146 BC by Duncan B. Campbell/Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury Press Publishing)
The Tyrian fire ships approach Alexander’s siege towers. Illustration by Giuseppe Rava, 1963.
To this day, the island of Tyre is now connected to the mainland by a peninsula tidal forces have built up around Alexander’s causeway.
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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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