Round 1: Tossup 20

The art of these people probably influenced the creation of funerary urns shaped like busts of women featuring large round headgear called rodete. Martial wrote epigrams about a dancer named Telethusa from a former colony of these people who may have worked in a tradition of sacred sex. Genetic studies have suggested that northern European mercenaries fought in a defeat of these people at the First Battle of Himera. An expedition of these people (10[1])that encountered men they called “gorillas” began at their colony of Gades (10[1])(“GAH-days”); that voyage was led by Hanno the Navigator. An empire founded by these people expanded into Iberia after the Mercenary War (10[1])under the leadership of Hamilcar Barca. For 10 points, what people of the ancient Near East founded Carthage? ■END■

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