Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Islands between reality and imagination: the Aegean sea and the changing images of insularity -- 1.2. What is an island? -- 1.3. Island connectivity: the dance of the islands -- 2. Religious networks in the archaic Aegean -- 2.1. Calauria -- 2.2. Delos -- 2.3. Conclusion -- 3. The Aegean islands as an imperial network: the fifth century and the Athenian empire -- 3.1. Delos and Athens -- 3.2. Islands as allies -- 3.3. Control of the islands and control of the sea -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Islands and imperialism -- 4.1. Projections of control into the past: the list of thalassocracies -- 4.2. Imaginary constructions of insularity -- 4.3. Imperialism and island subjugation -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5. The island of Athens -- 5.1. The Long Walls and Athenian insulation -- 5.2. Imagining insularity: 'if we were an island' -- 5.3. Utopian Athens and Plato's Atlantis -- 5.4. Conclusion: island Attica? -- 6. The smaller picture: mini island networks -- 6.1. Large and small islands -- 6.2. Cases of dispute for the control of small off-shore islands -- 6.3. Goat islands -- 6.4. Clusters of small islands -- 6.5. Synteleiai -- 6.6. Connectivity maintained: island porthmeutike -- 6.7. Conclusion -- 7. Beyond insularity: islands and their peraiai -- 7.1. The other side of peraiai: mainland cities and island territories-the case of Miletus -- 7.2. Peraiai: a short presentation of islands and their mainland territories -- 7.3. Some general remarks -- 7.4. Between insular and mainland: exiles and pollution in the peraiai -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Island entries in the Athenian Tribute Quota Lists -- Bibliography -- Index -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index of Islands -- A -- B -- C -- D.

E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Z -- Index of Sources -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- X.