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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

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 Bad Ancient, he currently lives in Nottingham, UK.