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The Maritime Policy of the Tyrants of Pherae

Publication date: 2020

ELECTRUM, 2020, Volume 27, pp. 89 - 115

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.20.005.12795

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Sławomir Sprawski
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6904-5544 Orcid
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The Maritime Policy of the Tyrants of Pherae

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This article examines the role played by the sea in the policy of the tyrants of Pherae. Although it has often been emphasised that control over the port in Pagasae and the profits from the maritime trade were closely linked to the city’s increasing importance in the late 5th and first half of the 4th century, these issues are yet to be the subject of a more detailed analysis. This article is the first part of a comprehensive study on the maritime activity of the Pheraean tyrants in the period from Jason’s first documented political move to the end of the reigns of Lycophron and Peitholaus. It focuses on political moves, and especially on relations with Athens, as the largest maritime power of the period. One of the most important instruments of maritime policy was maintaining a fleet. The article considers the circumstances of its building, its size and its use.

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2020, Volume 27, pp. 89 - 115

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6904-5544

Sławomir Sprawski
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6904-5544 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 2020

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* The paper was completed thanks to financial support from the Polish National Science Centre (grant: UMO-2012/07/B/HS3/03455).

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