The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization - Hardcover

Rees, Owen

 
9781324036524: The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1324036524 ISBN 13: 9781324036524
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilization ceased to exist. Our own fascination with the Greek and Roman world has for centuries followed this perspective, shrouding cultures at the far reaches of their influence in myth. But what was it like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world?The Far Edges of the Known WorldThe Far Edges of the Known World

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Owen Rees is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham and holds a PhD in Ancient History from Manchester Metropolitan University. A founder and lead editor of historical fact-checking site badancient.com, he currently lives in Nottingham, UK.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324036524
ISBN 13 
9781324036524
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
366
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