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Half Title 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Table of contents 5 Illustrations 7 Notes on Contributors 8 Part 1 The Middle Sea 47 Chapter 2 A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae 49 A Small Saronic World 50 From the Aegean to the Nile 52 Pharaonic Regalia and the Rise of Mycenae 55 Epilogue: Maritime Developments and the Collapse of Long-Distance Overseas Trade 57 Acknowledgments 59 Bibliography 59 Chapter 3 The “First Athenian Empire”? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period 62 Introduction 62 Athenian Naval Power before Peisistratos 64 The Peisistratids 70 The Philaidai 74 The Alkmeonids 80 Factionalism and the Greco-Persian Conflict 81 Concluding Remarks: the Roots of Empire 84 Bibliography 86 Chapter 4 Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s 91 The Second Athenian League: a Historical Introduction 92 The King’s Peace of 365 bce 95 Creating a Naval Network: the Thebans and the Aegean in the 360s 97 Epameinondas and the Southern Aegean 103 Contested Hegemonies: Epameinondas’ Aegean Voyage in 364 106 The Persian Empire, Asia Minor and the Aegean 110 Conclusion 117 Bibliography 119 Chapter 5 Th

Author

Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde and Roy van Wijk

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EN