LIST OF MAPS AND CREDITS

Here 1. The eastern Mediterranean and the Fertile Crescent in the Late Bronze Age.

Here 2. The geopolitical world of the Iliad, after Edzard Visser, Homers Katalog der Schiffe (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1997), 99.

Here 3. ‘Like ants or frogs around a pond’: Greek settlements in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, after Irad Malkin, A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 4, fig. 1.1.

Here 4. The Persian Wars (490 BCE–479 BCE).

Here 5. Alexander’s expedition and empire, after Simon Hornblower, The Greek World, 479–323 BCE, 4th ed. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), 292–293.

Here 6. The Hellenistic world.

Here 7. The Roman Empire in the late third century CE, after Charles Freeman, A New History of Early Christianity (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2011), map 3.

Here 8. Extent of the Roman Empire at the end of the reign of Justinian (565 CE), after Cyril Mango, The Oxford History of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 52.

Here 9. The new geopolitics in the centuries after the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717–718, after Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (London: Profile, 2011), 361, fig. 7.7.

Here 10. The Byzantine Empire in the mid-eleventh century, after Cyril Mango, The Oxford History of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 178.

Here 11. ‘A kaleidoscope of petty fiefdoms, principalities and kingdoms’, c. 1214, after A. Kazhdan et al., eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 357.

Here 12. The Ottoman Empire at the time of the death of Süleyman I (‘Süleyman the Magnificent’) in 1566, after ‘Territorial Changes of the Ottoman Empire 1566’, Wikipedia, November 24, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial _evolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire#/media/File:Ottoman Empire1566.png.

Here 13. The Greek world in the late eighteenth century, after Thomas Gallant, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), xii.

Here 14. The expansion of the Greek state (1832–1947).

Here 15. Countries of the world with the largest Greek populations today, after ‘Greek Diaspora’, Wikipedia, last updated January 26, 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek _diaspora#/media/File:50_largest_Greek_diaspora.svg.