Aegina's economic rivalry with Athens has led …
Years: 501BCE - 490BCE
Aegina's economic rivalry with Athens has led to wars and to the island's close collaboration with Persia.
Corinth and Athens, both of which have naval outlets in the Saronic Gulf, have a shared interest in containing the power of Aegina, the greatest other power in that gulf, the “star in the Dorian Sea,” as the poet Pindar, who lives from about 520 CE to 438 BCE, is to call Aegina.
Locations
People
Groups
- Athens, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Aegina, city-state of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Ionian Revolt
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
