The Far Edges of the Known World [electronic resource] : A New History of the Ancient Past
Owen Rees2025
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'A tour of those farflung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times
'This is the book for expanding your ancient history horizon' Tristan Hughes,
host of 'The Ancients' podcast
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of
the known world?
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired
at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid
thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilisation ceased to exist.
Our fascination with the Greek and Roman world, and the abundance of writing
that we have from it, means that we usually explore the ancient world from this
perspective too. Was Ovid's exile really as bad as he claimed? What was it truly
like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known
world?
Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the
empires we consider the 'heart' of civilisation were in fact ...
Main title:
Author:
Owen Rees, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781526653741
Language:
English
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BRN:
528468
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