Tyrrhenian Sea
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Nov 2, 2026
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
They extend eastwardly toward the Adriatic coast and turn southeasterly, hugging the coast through its whole extent.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
This conformation of the country causes the rivers of any size below the basin of the Po to flow into the Tyrrhenian or Tuscan Sea, rather than into the Adriatic.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Northern Italy, between the Alps and the Apennines, is drained by the Padus, or Po, and its tributaries.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
It was called Gallia Cisalpina, Gaul on this side of the Alps, and corresponds in general to modern Lombardy.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Central Italy, Italia Propria, or Italy Proper, included all of the peninsula below these rivers as far down as the Apulia and Lucania.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
In this division are the rivers Tiber, Arnes, Laris, and Volturnus, which empty into the Mediterranean, and Matorus, Asis, and Eternus, which empty into the Adriatic.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
The most important subdivision of central Italy was Latium, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
North of it on the same coast was Etruria, and to the south was Campania.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The young octopus shot away by jet.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The common octopus walks in Italian waters too, and near Capri, in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Divers out watching how octopuses hide met one walking about five meters down off the island on a day in May.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It was out over a bottom of white pebbles, with Posidonia seagrass growing up in patches among them.
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speaker_2NARRATOR
Below the camera, the day octopus lay spread across the bottom, its mantle and the arms around it pressed low and flat in the sunlit water at the head of the gulf.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It lay there in the sun, near islet, and you can leave it a while, lying as still as it is.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Off Capri, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the flattened octopuses lying out on the sunlit bottom were common octopuses, and in almost every picture from either sea, each mantle clearly resembled particular features of the things close beside it.
speaker_2NARRATOR
A single picture stayed unclear, The mantle carried the likeness, the part of the body the cameras looked down on.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The mountain in the middle of the sea, they call it.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A mass of volcanic rock rising out of the Tyrrhenian to the northeast of Sicily.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Fulicudi is one of the seven Isole Aeoliae, ruled over in myth by Aeolus, the divine keeper of the winds, who Homer told helped Odysseus on his way by granting him a favorable gust.
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An island far from war, far from time, watched over by the sun, wrote Roland Zoss in 1973.
Antonio MergèGUEST
It's about 30 minutes south from Rome.
Antonio MergèGUEST
We are located about three miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Antonio MergèGUEST
So we have a beautiful sea breeze.
Antonio MergèGUEST
And we have volcanic soil, a little sandy, beautiful soil.
Antonio MergèGUEST
We are working there on organic.
Antonio MergèGUEST
It's a beautiful vineyard as well, a little bit above 250 meters above the sea level, of course, far from the sea, and volcanic soil in the Castelli Romani.
Susan Hart WilsonHOST
Now, you mentioned you're having a vineyard near the Tyrrhenian Sea and another in the hills, the Castello Romani hills.
Antonio MergèGUEST
The one in Aprilia, and the other one is inside the Castelli Romani hills, is Lanuvio.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And it was he whose daughter Judith was given by her father's wish in marriage to Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
in the same year also a great army of the pagans came from germany into the country of the ancient saxons which is called in saxon aldsaxum note or old saxons to oppose them the said saxons and frisans joined their forces and fought bravely twice in that same year in both those battles the christians with the merciful aid of the lord obtained the victory in the same year also charles king of the almains received with universal consent all the territories which lie between the Tyrrhenian Sea and that gulf which runs between the Old Saxons and the Gauls, except the kingdom of Armorica, that is, Lesser Britain.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This Charles was the son of King Louis, who was brother of Charles, King of the Franks, father of the aforesaid Queen Judith.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
These two brothers were sons of Louis, but Louis was the son of the great, the ancient and wise Charlemagne, who was the son of Pepin.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But what can he do if he cannot save himself or escape thence? Or by what art can he remain there and improve his cause? He must, therefore, whether he will or no, endure with pain and sorrow that which he is suffering.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Now the king was pierced with many nails of tribulation, though placed in the royal seat, for from the twentieth year of his age to the present year, which is his fortieth, he has been constantly afflicted with the most severe attacks of an unknown complaint, so that he has not a moment's ease, either from suffering the pain which it causes or from the gloom which is thrown over him by the apprehension of its coming.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
note this must consequently have been written in a d eight hundred eighty eight and of note moreover the constant invasions of foreign nations by which he was continually harassed by land and sea without any interval of quiet or a just cause of disquiet What shall I say of his repeated expeditions against the pagans, his wars, and incessant occupations of government? Of the daily embassies sent to him by foreign nations from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the farthest end of Ireland? Note.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Wise conjectures that we ought to read Hiberiae, Spain, and not Hiberniae, Ireland, in this passage.
David NoeHOST
He was bringing my sister Circe to the western country.
David NoeHOST
And we came to the shore of the Tyrrhenian mainland.
David NoeHOST
Even now she still lives there far remote from the land of Colchis.
David NoeHOST
But what joy do words bring? So, Jeff, I have to say, that's a little bit extended, right? Yeah.
TinaGUEST
So in many ways, we're somewhere in the Western Mediterranean.
TinaGUEST
We can likely say we're somewhere in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
TinaGUEST
Why can we say this? There's a couple of reasons.
TinaGUEST
The first is that the Tyrrhenian Sea was especially difficult to navigate by boat.
TinaGUEST
We have a lot of documentation of shipwrecks in that area, and that's because there are so many craggly islands like throughout the coast of, you know, Western Italy.
TinaGUEST
We get from the Odyssey that, you know, this island that the Sirens live on is one that lures people in.
JamesHOST
Okay.
JamesHOST
A highlight, like, life highlight, is being able to swim in the Mediterranean, or the Tyrrhenian Sea, to be more precise, as you corrected my family.
JamesHOST
[laughs]
JonathanHOST
[laughs]
JamesHOST
Hello, guys.
JamesHOST
It's Cataldo.
JonathanHOST
And we did not get Cataldo as our skipper, but while we were swimming in the Tyrrhenian Sea, who was there right beside us in his boat without his shirt on but Mr. Cataldo?
JamesHOST
There he was.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
They extend eastwardly toward the Adriatic coast and turn southeasterly, hugging the coast through its whole extent.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
This conformation of the country causes the rivers of any size below the basin of the Po to flow into the Tyrrhenian or Tuscan Sea rather than into the Adriatic.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Northern Italy, between the Alps and the Apennines, is drained by the Padus, or Po, and its tributaries.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
It was called Gallia Cisalpina, Gaul on this side of the Alps, and corresponds in general to modern Lombardy.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Central Italy, Italia Propria, or Italy Proper, included all of the peninsula below these rivers as far down as the Apulia and Lucania.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
In this division are the rivers Tiber, Arnus, Liris, and Volturnus, which empty into the Mediterranean, and Metaurus, Aesis, and Aternus, which empty into the Adriatic.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
The most important subdivision of Central Italy was Latium, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
North of it on the same coast was Etruria, and to the south was Campania.
speaker_7NARRATOR
In today's episode, we will discover how a single foolish decision cost the lives of 32 people.
speaker_7NARRATOR
The one that had started as a luxurious cruise ship in the Mar Tirreno has turned into a desperate struggle for survival.
speaker_7NARRATOR
And for many, it was the fault of a man.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Captain Francesco Schettino.
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