Название: Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Ancient Environments)
Автор: Antti Lampinen
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 240
Размер: 30,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of conceptualizing its significance in Late Antique societies.