An extensive trading network, backed up by force, gives Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea. But in 433 Pericles overreaches himself, in a move which leads to a breach of his own Thirty Years Treaty.
Trading networks, backed up by force, gave Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea. Pericles overreaches himself in 433, in a move that leads to a breach of his own Thirty Years Treaty.
