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Document Details : Title: The Achaemenid Epire and the North-Western Aegean Author(s): PASPALAS, Stavros A. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 5 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2006 Pages: 90-120 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.5.1.3291742 Abstract : In the late 6th and early 5th century BC the north-western Aegean was populated by a number of different peoples organised into various polities, but they all came under the domination of the Achaemenid empire for a few short decades. It was from this region too that Alexander set out to conquer the East. The present paper examines the nature of the links between the Macedonian kingdom and the poleis of the region with the empire. It focuses on a number of case studies which deal critically with recently excavated finds as well as already known material. The region is shown to have had a relationship with the Achaemenid sphere that changed through time, and while it was truly on the imperial margins there was still ground for fertile interactions between the Achaemenid centre and the smaller centres of this outlying area. |
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