AHC: Maritime Powers but in Antiquity

Your challenge is to have an analogue to OTL's Maritime Powers, but in antiquity! In this case, eight city-states recognized by excelence in commercial-naval activity, they have to span all the mediterranean (at least two for each region of the mediterranean, separate in Eastern/Central/Western) and each one have to resemble some OTL maritime power, in this case:

- The Forgottable (Proto-Noli), the maritime power that exists yey
- The Jack of All Trades (Proto-Venice), the maritime power that makes all the things and more, and have an stupid luck sometimes
- The Warrior (Proto-Genoa), the maritime power that is pretty good in war, winning most of those but when loses all the power of the republic wanes
- The Unexpected (Proto-Amalfi), the maritime power that emerges in an improbable place
- The Landed (Proto-Pisa), the maritime power that beyond have it's prestige in the sea, have an great involvement with mainland's politics
- The Puppet (Proto-Ragusa), the maritime power that always is with the protection of an land power
- The Fierce Competitor (Proto-Ancona), the maritime power that always is competing with some of the other powers, and although being many times attacked by land powers allied with that other power, it resists
- The Assaulted (Proto-Gaeta), the maritime power that often is captured because reasons

Good
Luck
:p
 
Well... just IOTL
Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Corynth, Athens, Carthage, Eretria, Chalcis.
On a smaller scale/more limited periods, Samos, Miletos, Taras, Syracuse, Korkyra, Egina, Phocaea, Massalia, Rhodes, maybe Tartessos.
(I am not aware of anything comparable among Etruscan cities, but perhaps Fufluns and Caere come close enough to qualify).
Going earlier into the Bronze Age... hell, Knossos, Santorini and Ugarit at least, although any projection into the Western Mediterranean is doubtful.
 
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