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Noble President [email protected] n 480 B.C., the Athenian eet of emistocles demolished the Persian eet of Xerxes in the Erik W. Seither naval battle of Salamis, an outcome that will shape the evolution of Hellenic and western civili- Executive Director [email protected] zations. Nearly 2,500 years later, in 2014, in the same stretch of water, an 8,000 TEU super-post Bruce S. Rosenblatt Panamax containership will berth at the Eleftherios Venizelos container terminal. e vessel Treasurer Ioperates on a trunk route that links the Far East to Northern Europe. Susan Evans Grove ere is about as much resemblance between classical times and the dawn of the third mille- Publications Director nium as there is between a trireme and a hatchless containership. But one thing hasn’t changed: [email protected] As one of the Seven Seas, the Mediterranean has always gured prominently in history and in the Douglas R. 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