The Mediterranean Position and Northern Vision of the Croats
The Mediterranean Position and Northern Vision of the Croats

Summary/Abstract: “We, those of us who live from Phasis to the Pillars of Hercules, have just a little land, on which we have like ants or frogs round a puddle settled around the sea,” says Plato about the Mediterranean world in the Phaedo. Phasis is today’s Poti, a city at the far east of the Black Sea, in Georgia. The Pillars of Hercules are the Straits of Gibraltar. Plato’s words relate to a thalassian, maritime epoch, unlike the later potamian, riverine and later oceanic and today aeronautical and later cosmonautical ages. Plato speaks about the whole of our internal sea as single integrated unit.

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