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Group: Plymouth Council for New England
People: Kamehameha III
Topic: Guinea-Bissauan War of Independence
Location: Vindobona > Vienna > Wien Wien Austria

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.