The wine-dark web

Cities that taught the sea.

Not an empire of governors. A chain of harbors from Byblos to the Atlantic, speaking one script, praying to one lord of the city.

Byblos above the Mediterranean

Eastern Mediterranean

Gadir

Cádiz, Iberia · c. 1100 BCE

Gadir

Gādēr

The edge of the world

Temple of Melqart at the Pillars of Heracles. The west still runs the bulls and does not always know why. This is why we are Toros Resabiados — seasoned bulls, not young, not broken, standing where the sun goes down into the Atlantic.

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