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 that encountered men they called “gorillas” (10[1])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 under the leadership of Hamilcar Barca. For 10 points, what people of the ancient Near East founded Carthage? ■END■

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