The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization Business_Gift_Guide former Nazi official Max Immanuel

former Nazi official Max Immanuel climbed into his car in Berlin and set out on a harrowing mission

and Italy’s stunning Amalfi Coast

She was at the center of a group of important poets and intellectuals associated with the Museum and Library

Still recovering from the war

Fish out of Water: After a boat party disaster

The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization Business_Gift_Guide former Nazi official Max ImmanuelA revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long ignored societies on the borders. 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