"Sulla 'talassocrazia' dei Ciprioti in età arcaica. Una propensione marittima di lungo corso e le sue cristallizzazioni storiografiche".

The concept of ‘thalassocracy’ loomed large across Greek historiographical production, but its roots may be traced back to distinct historical situations experienced in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Archaic age. The so-called ‘List of the Thalassocracies’ preserved by the chronographer Eusebius from Caesarea contains a specific entry about the Cypriots, whose examination might be useful with a view to understand that document overall. The key for this task consists in an assessment of the longue durée of Cyprus’ role as a major maritime outpost and a source of naval expertise in the service of the continental empires of the Near East (first, the Neo-Assyrian, then the Persian Achaemenid one) between the mid-8th and the beginning of the 5th century B.C.