Sea connecting, sea dividing - sea life giving, sea lethal. The role of the sea in the life of the people of Crimean Cherson in the late antique and early Byzantine periods
Journal: ASEP
Year: 2014

Sea always played a significant role in the lives of the people of Cherson – of the city located at the edge of the classical world. The sea separated Cherson from the Empire; Crimea was considered as a distant territory, suitable for exiling inconvenient persons. On the other hand, concerning an enemy attack to the Byzantine Empire from the north, the distance from Crimea to Constantinople was uncomfortably short. Furthermore, the sea provided people of Cherson with food, which helped to develo