This isn't directly related to EB-the-game, but EB-the-historical-context, because it's amongst one of the major influences/inspirations for a tabletop roleplaying game I'm about to run for my regular group. It's called Tyche's Favourites, and is set in Massalia/the western Mediterranean starting in 300BC (campaign wiki is a work in progress here).
Obviously having chosen that location to base the game, I really need lots of information on Massalia itself, beyond what I can glean from Wikipedia and some Google searches. If anyone has some good sources (online, free is best; but failing that decent book references are good too) on what the the city and it's surroundings were like a generation before EB's start, that would be much appreciated.
One other thing I'm struggling with is sizes of major population centres. For the system I'm using, population is an important input from which you can derive a whole host of other stats and important nuances. While these don't have to be perfect, at least getting them broadly right (correct ballpark/order of magnitude) will put me in good stead. One source tells me Syracuse (which I'm expecting to be the biggest city outside of Karthago itself) was 200,000 people in 300BC. Any idea what Rome, Lilibeo, Capua, Qart-Hadast, Kyrene and others were at this time?
Thanks in advance.
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