A Bridge to Overseas: Insight into the geomorphology, harbourworks and harbour layouts of the Archaic and Classical Greek harbours

Abstract

In the process of acknowledging Greek history and archaeology, understanding harbour contexts is of utmost importance. For the Greeks, besides representing a capital of resources in a territory with a challenging topography, the sea constituted a means of communication that enabled them to maintain commercial and political relationships with the many centres of the Greek world as such and the so-called ‘areas of expansion’. In other words, the Greek world was based fundamentally on living off the sea and around the sea.