The mediterranean and the voices transported by time

Abstract

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.