Josephine Quinn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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These are cows so cool that they have to look after them specially.
Exactly, exactly.
But then what happens is that, so you get this picture in Herodotus of quite a sophisticated people who are farming, who are herding, who are also quite high up in the local hierarchy, because he also says that they are hunting the Ethiopians, the cave-dwelling Ethiopians, he says.
And these Garamantes are hunting, with chariots, they've got horses and chariots, they're hunting the Ethiopians to enslave them, essentially.
So you've got this kind of strange picture, but of a people who are quite complex and quite high up and who are also involved in trade.
And then by the Roman period, so 500 years later, the Roman Empire, and this is a period when there is regular trading contact between Rome and the Garamantes.
There are Roman generals go down there.
They even go on expeditions with the king of the Garamantes.
This is...
really quite a well-known place to real-life Romans.
What you get in the descriptive sources of the Garamantes are two things.
Either people just copy what Herodotus had said 500 years earlier when no one had gone there.
It's basically literally copy it out word for word.
Or you get sources that make them even stranger, that say they live in tents, they only hunt.
Even the very sober Roman historian Tacitus calls them wild.
But I mean, this is in a period when plenty of people that Tacitus is writing about in Rome have been to Garama, had seen the city, had seen the stone temples.
They're trading all the time.
So it's the most peculiar, yeah, progressive barbarisation in time as well as space.
You get a lot of that in further north in Africa as well, which is really interesting.
So it's suggesting that sort of some kind of shared beliefs or ideas about death.
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