Importance of Sea in Ancient Greece

Map of the important Seans of Ancient Greece

Map of the important seas of Ancient Greece: the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Ionian, the Euxinus Pontus (Black Sea), and the sea beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar Strait) with color emphasis reversed from customary maps, to show how ancient Greeks of the first millennium saw the sea the same way we see the land.