Finding the Frontier in Late Antiquity: The Evolution of Greco-Roman Thinking about the Geographic Frontier in Late Antiquity

“在古代晚期发现边境”旨在了解希腊罗马人对地理边界的看法在古代晚期是如何演变的。该项目将进行三个案例研究，每个案例研究一个使徒故事，这些故事取材于早期基督教“伪经行传”的被忽视的语料库，在这些故事中，穿越生动的边疆风景的奇怪而奇妙的旅行场景构成了他们叙事的一个组成部分。通过使用这些资料作为透镜，我们可以理解希腊罗马人在调和他们对“外部”的看法与他们新的激进的基督教思想时，他们对地理边界的看法是如何发展的。

'Finding the Frontier in Late Antiquity' seeks to understand how Greco-Roman thinking about the geographic frontier evolved during late antiquity. This project will pursue three case studies each examining an apostolic story drawn from the neglected corpus of the early Christian "Apocryphal Acts", in which weird and wonderful travel scenes across vivid frontier landscapes form an integral aspect of their narratives. By using these sources as a lens, we can understand how broader Greco-Roman thought about the geographic frontier developed as they reconciled their perceptions of the "outside" with their new radical Christian ideas.