1 Phoenicians Where they lived modern Lebanon Phoenicia originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean primarily The ancient sources writers that mention them Since little has survived of Phoenician records or literature most of what is known about their origins and history comes from the accounts of other civilizations and inferences from their material culture excavated throughout the Mediterranean What online resources you used to find them Wikipedia 2 Libyans Where they lived Libya North Africa In Homer it was a pastoral land of great fecundity near Egypt later most commonly the Greek colonial area of Cyrenaica but sometimes other parts or the whole of the North African coastal zone even the whole continent of Africa The ancient sources writers that mention them Homer What online resources you used to find them The Oxford Classical Dictionary They were settled on the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula at The ancient sources writers that mention them Hecataeus of Miletus Avienius Herodotus and Strabo etc What online resources you used to find them 3 Iberians Where they lived least from the 6th century BC Wikipedia 4 Ligyes Where they lived They lived in Liguria a region of present day north western Italy In pre Roman times the Ligurians occupied the present day Italian region of Liguria Piedmont northern Tuscany western Lombardy western Emilia Romagna and northern Sardinia reaching also Elba and Sicily They inhabited also the French region of Provence Alpes C te d Azur and Corsica However it is generally believed that around 2000 BC the Ligurians occupied a much larger area extenting as far as what today is Catalonia in the north eastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula The ancient sources writers that mention them Little is known about the Ligurian which is based on placenames and inscriptions on steles representing warriors What online resources you used to find them Wikipedia 5 Sardinians Where they lived They are a Romance language speaking ethnic group native to Sardinia from which the western Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy derives its name The ancient sources writers that mention them Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people The ethnonym S a rd belongs to the Pre Indo European linguistic substratum and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect The oldest written attestation of the ethnonym is on the Nora stone where the word rdn Shardan bears witness to its original existence by the time the Phoenician merchants first arrived to the Sardinian shores What online resources you used to find them Wikipedia Cyrene or Kyrene was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present day The ancient sources writers that mention them Cyrene is referred to in the deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees What online resources you used to find them 6 Cyrnians Where they lived Shahhat Libya Wikipedia 7 Carchedonians Where they lived City of Carthage in northern Africa The ancient sources writers that mention them Livy Polybius Appian Cornelius Nepos Silius Italicus Plutarch Dio Cassius and Herodotus What online resources you used to find them Wikipedia 8 Carthaginians Where they lived centered in North Africa Initially a settlement in present day Tunisia The ancient sources writers that mention them Livy Polybius Appian Cornelius Nepos Silius Italicus Plutarch Dio Cassius and Herodotus What online resources you used to find them Wikipedia Ephorus a When did he live He was born in 405 BC and died in 330 BC b What did he write Besides the universal history Ephorus wrote an Epichorios logos a patriotic essay in which he praised the traditions of Cyme He also wrote Peri heurematon a book about inventions and Peri lexeos On Style c What online resources did you use Brill s New Pauly Online