Lemnos: a Frontier Island in the North Aegean Sea

The contribution examines the archaeological evidence, ranging from
the subgeometric period to the archaic age, related to the main sites of
Lemnos, with the aim of demonstrating that the Athenian construction
of the marginality of Lemnos can be deconstructed, on an archaeological
basis. During the Archaic period, in fact, Lemnos was at the center of
complex socio-economic and cultural networks in the northern Aegean,
which allow it to be identified as an “interface” between Thrace, the
Aegean and Anatolia and, ultimately, to be recognized as a “frontier
island”.