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%T A Bridge to Overseas: Insight into the geomorphology, harbourworks and harbour layouts of the Archaic and Classical Greek harbours
publisher Archaeopress
%D 2019
%U 978-1-78969-023-1
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91445
%X 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.
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