The trip across the Mediterranean had been arduous. Aeneas had aimed to travel south and make for Egypt, but days of tempestuous storms and terrible visibility had left them – of all places – west of Greece. They’d continued on westward, rounding the great peninsula that all but bisected the Mediterranean, and briefly stopping in the strange land of the Carthagenians, before finally bringing their ship to its final rest on the western shore of the aforementioned peninsula.
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Sunday, May 26, 2019
4.48: Epilogue II: Born To Be Kings
1180 BCE - Western Coast of Italy.
The trip across the Mediterranean had been arduous. Aeneas had aimed to travel south and make for Egypt, but days of tempestuous storms and terrible visibility had left them – of all places – west of Greece. They’d continued on westward, rounding the great peninsula that all but bisected the Mediterranean, and briefly stopping in the strange land of the Carthagenians, before finally bringing their ship to its final rest on the western shore of the aforementioned peninsula.
The trip across the Mediterranean had been arduous. Aeneas had aimed to travel south and make for Egypt, but days of tempestuous storms and terrible visibility had left them – of all places – west of Greece. They’d continued on westward, rounding the great peninsula that all but bisected the Mediterranean, and briefly stopping in the strange land of the Carthagenians, before finally bringing their ship to its final rest on the western shore of the aforementioned peninsula.
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