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The Mediterranean was the great sea of Antiquity. And its waters, symbol of a changing world, allowed many men – Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, etc. – to find and to recognize themselves in their particularities. Later, Rome, which in just three centuries redesigned the world, ensured that the messages of the early times – of Egyptian, Phoenician and Greek spaces – penetrated this world. It added others – law and religion – and thus it was shaped Western civilization, which is Roman and Greek, but it is also African and Oriental, via a river whose waters “drew” the history of the world.
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Lopes, M.H.T. (2014). The Mediterranean and the Voices Transported by Time. In: Goffredo, S., Dubinsky, Z. (eds) The Mediterranean Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_32
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