Thursday 25 April 2019

Busy Seaports


Inns In Ys
Thucydides Wrote
Verbals And Visuals

No doubt there are others. The three linked posts are about Ys, Tyre and Harfleur, respectively, with references made to New York and San Francisco.

Ys is a busy seaport where strangers bring new ways and young men are eager for the New Age when Ys might succeed Rome as mistress of the world.

Trade from the known world flows through Tyre, "...queen of the sea."

Merchant adventurers will set sail from Harfleur for the New World and Everard has just time traveled to Harfleur from San Francisco, 1990.

Three good places to live.

7 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I had been wondering if the city state of King Hiram's Tyre might be better compared to the modern day city state of Singapore. Both were/are busy, mercantile port cities.

Sean

Anonymous said...

Indeed...In that respect, I wonder if Iron Age Tyre was also like "Disneyland with a death penalty" as Singapore has been described... Wish I knew more about the Phoenicians and their descendants the Carthaginians. Unfortunately, it seems much of what I know/have heard is biased from the sources- my folks (the Jews) for the Phoenicians and the Romans for the Carthaginians. Didn't P A have a Carthaginian character in "B o A M Y"?

-kh

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Keith,
I don't think so. Hanno is Tyrian.
Paul.

Anonymous said...

I stand corrected! :)

-kh

S.M. Stirling said...

Bear in mind that all preindustrial cities of any size were disease sinks, and hence extremely risky places to live compared to a rural farm or village. Going to a town -- and towns only survived because of rural migrants -- was a gamble.

S.M. Stirling said...

Archaeology has born out a lot of the Graeco-Roman propaganda about Carthage: for example, the practice of sacrificing their own children.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Keith and Mr. Stirling!

Yes, Hanno was born during King Hiram's reign. And if I recall correctly what said in THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS, he left Tyre at least partly because he found its religious practices repulsive or creepy. Think human sacrifices and temple prostitution.

Not that we are any better, we are not! As far as I'm concerned, "legalized" abortion is as horrifying as the child sacrifices of Phoenicia and Carthage.

Sean