For the ancients, the Mediterranean was not only the sea in the middle of the land, but the Mediterranean world was clearly conceived as the centre of the world. Our conception of the world has expanded its geography extraordinarily, but, to a large extent, the Mediterranean continues to be, in many aspects, the epicentre and meeting point between cultures. For better or for worse, today it is also the epicentre of enormous complexity and conflict, a legacy of its extraordinary history and the diversity of the peoples and cultures that surround it.

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