Enjoying history in an unfamiliar format, that is what “THEN and now. The podcast on history ”. Now the third episode is running: This time it’s about the battle of the Roman Republic against the Cilician pirates.
Cilicia, a coastal strip in the south of what is now Turkey, with its hidden bays and forested mountains offered a good shelter for pirates who had initially only been up to mischief in the east of the Mediterranean. Since about 75 BC The pirates became bolder and bolder, kidnapped rich Romans to extort ransom, hijacked Roman merchant ships and even attacked cities in Italy. Finally the Senate managed to send the general Gnaeus Pompeius to Cilicia with a large fleet.
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