Oct 7, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
The Bronze Age is known as the Time of Heroes, where it is suggested the Epic Cycle - the Trojan War, the Odyssey, etc - took place. But what happened? And who were the Sea People? In this episode we…
Kenny CurtisHostJillian HughesHost
So we start this story with the Greeks before the Greeks, the pre-Greeks, living in the Bronze Age.
So ages are typically named after the newest technology in that region at that time because often all we have left of these cultures are the objects they leave behind, what archeologists like to call material culture that they left behind.
Bronze, by the way, is made with copper and tin put together and was a major part of trade.
It kind of made the Mediterranean world go round because copper from the island of Cyprus and tin from as far away as Afghanistan and England came together through trade routes and allowed people to create bronze for statues, weapons, nails, whatever.
I mean, the Roman timeline we talked about started in the 700s BCE, so this is, like, ancient ancient.
So we start this story with the Greeks before the Greeks, the pre-Greeks, living in the Bronze Age.
So ages are typically named after the newest technology in that region at that time because often all we have left of these cultures are the objects they leave behind, what archeologists like to call material culture that they left behind.
Bronze, by the way, is made with copper and tin put together and was a major part of trade.
It kind of made the Mediterranean world go round because copper from the island of Cyprus and tin from as far away as Afghanistan and England came together through trade routes and allowed people to create bronze for statues, weapons, nails, whatever.
I mean, the Roman timeline we talked about started in the 700s BCE, so this is, like, ancient ancient.
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