Reggio Calabria

So definitely a beautiful region and a place to go.

Okay, well, you've described that really well, and I think that's important for our listeners to understand, this mix of mountains, rugged mountains, running down through the heart of Calabria, and then the Turanian Sea on one side going down to Reggio Calabria.

and then going around the toe of the Italian peninsula to the Insep in this beautiful Ionian Sea, which really is, as I say, a very special place.

And as you say, wine has been made here for thousands of years.

Is that right?

Well, the Manzonico is another variety that was nearly abandoned.

When we started to study it, there were just a few actors in the very south of Calabria, in the province of Reggio Calabria, where also the Gregorio Bianco is cultivated, so in the area of Bianco and Geraceo.

But Our interest was more for the different characteristics that the Mantonico had compared to the Greco Bianco, for example.

And Sicily was always going to be the... crux, the crucible for controlling the Mediterranean, because we all can look at the map and see that you control the central Mediterranean if you control Sicily.

So what happens in the period after Agathocles and then the invasion of another Greek into Sicily and Italy called Pyrrhus is that The Romans are conquering down from Rome all the way through the south of Italy, right to the very toe to what is Reggio Calabria today.

And the Syracusans and the Carthaginians had been battling back and forth.

And the Carthaginians have a base here.

literally at the Aeolian Islands on the island of Lipperie, which is today right across from Reggio Calabria.

And there's a group of mercenary soldiers who have taken Messina, which is right on the straits between Italy and Sicily.

And those mercenary soldiers fight a battle with Syracuse.

The Armenians, supposing that all were proceeding to the lower point, overlooked those remaining above, who crossing the upper ford without molestation defended their comrades as they also passed over.

When Appius Claudius, consul in the First Punic War, was unable to transport his soldiers from the neighborhood of Rhegium to Messina because the Carthaginians were guarding the straits, he caused the rumor to be spread that he could not continue a war which had been undertaken without the endorsement of the people, and turning about, he pretended to set sail for Italy.

Then when the Carthaginians dispersed, believing he had gone, Appius turned back and landed in Sicily.

When certain Spartan generals had planned to sail to Syracuse, but were afraid of the Carthaginian fleet anchored along the shore, they commanded that ten Carthaginian ships which they had captured should go ahead as though victors with their own vessels either latched to their side or towed behind.

dynasty value is 16th year three values 11 so it's nice to see some teams with this balance whereas like you know there's some teams where their win now value is high like eighth or tenth then their dynasty and year three value is in the low 20 or the high 20s or something like that but he's got pretty balanced all around where he's about to win now uh and he's also got a really balanced approach with future value and his picks value as well he's going to be strong and blocks it seems like middle of the pack and points and rebounds and three pointers and field goal percentage um so yeah really focused on this big man build especially with this three-man core of evan mobley alex saar lori marketing and perhaps in the future we add mores johnson into that fold as well too for his big strength so shout out to gabe All right, this is one of the new owners.

I think this is the newest owner, the Reggio Calabria Swordfish.

Shout out to King Max.

His team is spearheaded by Tyrese Maxey, Desmond Bain, Io DeSomno, Devin Vassell, Kevin Porter Jr., and Kristaps Porzingis.

The chief towns in Lucania and Bruttium were settled by the Greeks.

Among them were Heraclea, Metapontum, Sybaris, and Thurii in Lucania, and Croton, Locri, and Rhegium in Bruttium.

The islands near Italy were important.

Sicily, with an area of about ten thousand square miles and triangular in shape, was often called by the poets Trinacria, with three promontories.

We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days.

Then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium.

After one day there, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days.

The Armenians, supposing that all were proceeding to the lower point, overlooked those remaining above, who crossing the upper ford without molestation defended their comrades as they also passed over.

When Appius Claudius, consul in the first Punic war, was unable to transport his soldiers from the neighborhood of Rhegium to Messina, because the Carthaginians were guarding the straits, he caused the rumor to be spread that he could not continue a war which had been undertaken without the endorsement of the people, and turning about, he pretended to set sail for Italy.

Then when the Carthaginians dispersed, believing he had gone, Appius turned back and landed in Sicily.

When certain Spartan generals had planned to sail to Syracuse, but were afraid of the Carthaginian fleet anchored along the shore, they commanded that ten Carthaginian ships which they had captured should go ahead as though victors with their own vessels either latched to their side or towed behind.

Moreover, the pro-Carthaginian settlement was still strong in the city, and if it went over to the Carthaginian side, Hannibal's lines of communication in Campania would strengthen and push the Romans towards the sea.

In addition, Hannibal sent word to Hanno the Elder, recalling him back to Campania, just as he was preparing to attack Rhegium.

Realizing the danger, Marcellus immediately turned back.

The Second Battle of Nola was about to begin.