Aegean Sea

Yeah.

And this incredibly specific trail of breadcrumbs has led modern investigators directly to Santorini, which is an island in the Aegean Sea.

A very famous island today.

Oh,

Let's hear it.

Imagine you are a primitive farmer or a simple fisherman in ancient times.

You are standing on the shore of the Aegean Sea, and suddenly, emerging from the water, you see a team of advanced underwater welders.

Okay, modern scuba welders.

Sometimes on my calls, I don't know why I do this, but I'm like, okay, show and tell, go! And people like find something.

So this is a stone that I got when I was 13 in the Aegean Sea beach.

in Greece and I still have it.

And when I, I've probably moved 12 million times.

Yeah.

I've done two in the Bahamas, one in Long Island Sound, and two in the Aegean Sea of Greece.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, we've seen years ago, I went to Key West in Florida, and there are people who live on houseboats right there, right in the water up to the shore.

I'll be with Act 1.

[tense music] There's a little town in Turkey called Çesme, in a colorful bay off the Aegean Sea.

Some 15 miles away, the Greek island of Chios lies, mountainous, and even on the best days, half obscured by drifting rain clouds.

In the summers, the vacationers stream in from Izmir, from Istanbul, and on charter flights till the town bulges to a population of 50,000.

Caesar himself fell into the hands of these pirates at some time during the period of his wanderings.

The pirates captured the ship in which he was sailing near Pharmacusa, a small island in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea.

He was not at this time in the destitute condition in which he had found himself on leaving Rome, but was travelling with attendants suitable to his rank, and in such a style and manner as at once made it evident to the pirates that he was a man of distinction.

They accordingly held him for ransom, and in the meantime, until he could take measures for raising the money, they kept him a prisoner on board the vessel which had captured him.

Pompey aroused himself from his stupor, threw off the military dress which belonged to his rank and station, and assumed a hasty disguise, in which he hoped he might make his escape from the immediate scene of his calamities.

He mounted a horse and rode out of the camp at the easiest pace of egress in the rear, in company with bodies of troops and guards who were also flying in confusion, while Caesar and his forces on the other side were carrying the entrenchments and forcing their way in.

as soon as he had thus made his escape from the immediate scene of danger he dismounted and left his horse that he might assume more completely the appearance of a common soldier and with a few attendants who were willing to follow his fallen fortunes he went on to the eastward directing his weary steps towards the shores of the aegean sea the country through which he was travelling was thessaly thessaly is a vast amphitheatre surrounded by mountains from whose sides streams descend which after watering many fertile valleys and plains combine to form one great central river that flows to the eastward and after various meanderings finds its way into the gean sea through a romantic gap between two mountains called the vale of tempe a vale which has been famed in all ages for the extreme picturesqueness of its scenery and in which in those days all the charms both of the most alluring beauty and of the sublimest grandeur seemed to be combined Pompey followed the roads leading along the banks of this stream, weary in body and harassed and disconsolate in mind.

The news which came to him from time to time, by the flying parties which were moving through the country in all directions, of the entire and overwhelming completeness of Caesar's victory, extinguished all remains of hope, and narrowed down at last the grounds of his solicitude to the single point of his own personal safety.

And of course, I know many of you know that, but we Americans are terrified of geography more than anything else on Earth, so it never hurts to clarify.

The North Sea, like the Aegean Sea long before it with Greek literature, was the main engine behind a lot of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Beowulf takes place in what is today Denmark and southern Sweden, and many of the most famous Anglo-Saxon poems concern seafaring and bear the imprint of a greater maritime culture.

The Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain predominantly disembarked generation after generation on the eastern and southern coasts of the island.

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The Athenians were a seafaring nation, and they expanded their influence around the Aegean Sea into Asia Minor, where they founded settlements and towns Gradually, over the centuries, Athens had come to dominate its neighbors.

Its democratic government was taken as a model for the world.

Its philosophers and artists were an inspiration to all.