Speaker: Bjorn LovenThe Zea Harbor Project, digging on land and underwater from 2002 to 2012, uncovered extensivearchaeological remains of the Athenian naval facilities. The lecture will show how the archaeologicalfinds inform us about developments from the dawn of Athenian power in the late 6th and early 5thcenturies BC, to the young democracy at the time of the Persian Wars, to the age of empire whenAthens ruled the eastern Mediterranean, and to the waning years of the 4th century BC, when Athensstood in the shadow of Macedonia.