In 320BC an expedition set out from what is now southern France on an unprecedented journey: to find out what lay beyond the pillars of Hercules in the mythological northern lands. Cunliffe has used Pythias\\\' journey to recreate the world through which the Greek ship sailed.
Author description
Barry Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Facing The Ocean: The Atlantic And Its Peoples.