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Sep 13, 2026
Eve MacDonaldGUEST
That really simplifies things.
Eve MacDonaldGUEST
Sicily is a big mix of, um, indigenous people called the Limnians, also Sicels.
Eve MacDonaldGUEST
Um, so Carthage has allies who are both Phoenician-speaking at, at cities like Palermo and Trapani and, um, Lilybaeum, which is modern Marsala, and also, um, allies who are indigenous Sicilians really.
Tristan HughesHOST
Carthaginian-aligned cities in Sicily.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
Fear not, I'll tell you a bit more about Ortigia in just a moment.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
They expelled the local Sicels.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
Remember, the indigenous peoples of Sicily are technically called Siculi.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
In, uh, English we call them Sicels, S-I-C-E-L-S.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
And the Corinthian Greeks who landed on Ortigia in the eighth century kicked them out and then essentially began this program of rapid expansion, conquering more and more territory around what today we identify as the city of Siracusa.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
And this rapid expansion of Siracusa under a whole series of rather well-known leaders, leaders with names like Gelon or Dionysius I or Hiero II.
Roel KonijnendijkGUEST
And then the inland has not been settled by Greeks, right? That is largely dominated by indigenous peoples.
Roel KonijnendijkGUEST
So there's the Elimians in the west, there's the Sicanians in the center, and the Sikels in the west, more or less.
Roel KonijnendijkGUEST
And this is like a rough... approximation but there are these three main groups of indigenous peoples who are italic peoples they speak their own language they have their own culture they're under influence of peoples from the coast of course they're under greek and carthaginian influence but they are in many ways sort of a wild card in the sort of geopolitical picture of this island so it's it's complex it's it's been changing a lot in the centuries of the historical period in Greece.
Roel KonijnendijkGUEST
And it is a patchwork of small states and not just states, but also peoples and cultures.
DodieNARRATOR
The alleged predominant influence of the moon's wax and wane over the growth and welfare of vegetation was formerly generally recognized.
DodieNARRATOR
Thus, in an almanac of the year 1661, it is stated that if any corn, seed, plant be either set or sown within six hours either before or after the full moon in summer or before the new moon in winter, having joined with the cosmic horizon of Arcturus and Orion, the Hedi and the Siculi, it is subject to blasting and canker.
DodieNARRATOR
Timber was always cut during the wane of the moon, and so firmly rooted was the superstition that directions were given accordingly in the Forest Code of France.
DodieNARRATOR
An early English almanac advised farmers to kill hogs when the moon was growing, as thus, quote, the bacon would prove the better in boiling, end quote.
DodieNARRATOR
The alleged predominant influence of the moon's wax and wane over the growth and welfare of vegetation was formerly generally recognized.
DodieNARRATOR
Thus, in an almanac of the year 1661, it is stated that if any corn, seed, plant be either set or sown within six hours either before or after the full moon in summer or before the new moon in winter, having joined with the cosmic horizon of Arcturus and Orion, the Hedi and the Siculi, it is subject to blasting and canker.
DodieNARRATOR
Timber was always cut during the wane of the moon, and so firmly rooted was the superstition that directions were given accordingly in the forest code of France.
DodieNARRATOR
An early English almanac advised farmers to kill hogs when the moon was growing, as thus, quote, the bacon would prove the better in boiling, end quote.