The ancients already had a very marked sense of ownership of the Mediterranean. This is without doubt the “Mare Nostrum” because the Alboran Sea, the Mar Menor, the Balearic Sea, the Sardinian Sea, Ligurian Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea flow into it to form the Mediterranean Sea. It is the “Mare Medi Terraneum”, or rather, the sea that is surrounded by land and it really is too close to home to miss…