It was a region which I knew almost nothing about. My journey had been decided on a whim; a few weeks earlier I had been in Albania, staring in wonderment across the border to the Pindus mountains in Greece and feeling there must be something to discover. And so inevitably I hadn’t given myself enough…
One of the great differences between the Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations is that whilst the former were predominantly seafarers (the exception of course, was Alexander the Great), the Romans preferred to travel by land. The Ancient Greek civilisation was therefore largely confined to the Mediterranean, whilst Roman civilisation extended throughout Europe, Asia Minor, into…
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