Edge of Empire Lendering Jona
Edge of Empire Lendering Jona "In this place, a poverty-stricken tribe lives on high terps and hand-built platforms, which raise their homes above the known high water mark. To him and his comrades,…
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Edge of Empire Lendering Jona
"In this place, a poverty-stricken tribe lives on high terps and hand-built platforms, which raise their homes above the known high water mark. To him and his comrades, this was the edge of the world. When the waves wash over the surrounding land, the inhabitants look like seafarers, but when the water subsides they have the appearance of shipwrecked people."That's how a Roman officer described the people living on the shores of the North Sea.
Julius Caesar exploited this preconception to enhance his own reputation, boasting that he had overcome the "bravest of all Gauls"; Tacitus employed In the sea, he expected to find fabulous monsters, and on land, savage barbarians.Every ancient author writing about the Low Countries, was preoccupied with the complete contrast between the civilized people of the Roman Empire and the tribes of noble savages or barbarians living outside it.