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...Egyptian setback forced Athens to abandon her Peloponnesian campaign and concentrate all her resources on reversing the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, to halt the disintegration of her hegemony in the Aegean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Tutor Reviews Imperialism of Athens In Jackson Lectures | 4/19/1961 | See Source »

Following the defeat, a large number of islands failed to contribute their annual allotments to Athens. However, by 450 B.C., the Athenians were able to restore much of their influence in the Aegean, setting the stage for their decision to transform the alliance into an empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Tutor Reviews Imperialism of Athens In Jackson Lectures | 4/19/1961 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Karl Lehmann, 66, German-born U.S. archaeologist who spent 22 years digging in the marble-littered Aegean isle of Samothrace, turned up a host of notable finds, including the missing right hand of the Louvre's famed Winged Victory; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 2, 1961 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Some 3,100 years ago, the Aegean island of Chryse (pronounced Cry-see) soared rocketlike into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philoctetes Was Here | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Last week, from his Roman apartment, tall, balding Piero Gargallo was laying plans for another full-scale expedition to Chryse and its surroundings. Says he excitedly: "The entire Aegean and Mediterranean are one vast undersea museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philoctetes Was Here | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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