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1. Introduction 1 1.1. Islands between reality and imagination: the Aegean sea and the changing images of insularity 1 1.2. What is an island? 10 1.3. Island connectivity: the dance of the islands 20 2. Religious networks in the archaic Aegean 29 2.1. Calauria 29 2.2. Delos 38 2.3. Conclusion 58 3. The Aegean islands as an imperial network: the fifth century and the Athenian empire 61 3.1. Delos and Athens 62 3.2. Islands as allies 76 3.3. Control of the islands and control of the sea 84 3.4. Conclusion 88 4. Islands and imperialism 90 4.1. Projections of control into the past: the list of thalassocracies 90 4.2. Imaginary constructions of insularity 99 4.3. Imperialism and island subjugation 125 4.4. Conclusion 134 5. The island of Athens 137 5.1. The Long Walls and Athenian insulation 137 5.2. Imagining insularity: 'if we were an island' 151 5.3. Utopian Athens and Plato's Atlantis 163 5.4. Conclusion: island Attica? 173 6. The smaller picture: mini island networks 176 6.1. Large and small islands 177 6.2. Cases of dispute for the control of small off-shore islands 199 6.3. Goat islands 200 6.4. Clusters of small islands 214 6.5. Synteleiai 219 6.6. Connectivity maintained: island porthmeutike 222 6.7. Conclusion 226 7. Beyond insularity: islands and their peraiai 228 7.1. The other side of peraiai: mainland cities and island territories-the case of Miletus 228 7.2. Peraiai: a short presentation of islands and their mainland territories 231 7.3. Some general remarks 245 7.4. Between insular and mainland: exiles and pollution in the peraiai 249