The Far Edges of the Known World
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Krátky popis
‘A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to
venture’ The Times‘A strikingly original take . .
.&,nbsp,uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery’
Spectator'This is the book for expanding your ancient history
horizon' Tristan Hughes, host of 'The Ancients' podcastWhat 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
thriving, vibrant cultures – just not ones we might expect. This is
where the boundaries of ‘civilised’ and ‘barbarians’ began to
dissipate, where the rules didn't always apply, where normally
juxtaposed cultures intermarried, and where nomadic tribes built
their own cities. Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of
Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from
Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts
south of Hadrian’s Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires
and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches
of Greece and Rome.In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly
rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
Dr Owen (Birmingham Newman University,
UK) Rees
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