- Late Archaic and Classical Greek History (6th - 4th centuries B.C.)
- History of the Ancient Near East (Levantine area)
- Achaemenid History
- Connections and intertwinings of the Greek world with the lands and peoples of the East Mediterranean
- Persian Wars; fights and encounters between the Greeks (and Athens at the first place), the Persians and the subjects of the Achaemenid kingdom
- Greek sea warfare; structures and activities of Persian fleets
- History of ancient Cypriot, Cilician and Levantine communities under Persian Achaemenid rule
- Political management models of the western and Mediterranean holdings of the Achaemenid kingdom
- Historiographies of Greek-Persian relations; interests of classical writers (historians, orators, poets and so on) for the Levantine events, and integrations with the local sources
