Born on the Beach
Josephine Quinn: Ancient Coastlines, 14 August 2025
The Ancient Shore
by Paul J. Kosmin.
Harvard, 399 pp., £37.95, November 2024,978 0 674 29624 4 Show More
by Paul J. Kosmin.
Harvard, 399 pp., £37.95, November 2024,
“... and waning of the Ice Age. It is the coast that creates the past. The ancients knew this. As Paul Kosmin points out, ‘history begins on the shore, and there it finds its limit.’ Herodotus, the first to record the results of historical ‘inquiries’ in the late fifth century bce, begins by surveying a series of legends of Phoenician, Trojan and ... ”