A history of seafaring in the classical world [electronic resource] / Fik Meijer.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Meijer, Fik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Aegean : 3000-1100 BC
  • 2. The Dark Ages
  • 3. The age of expansion
  • 4. Greeks versus Persians : the invention of the trireme
  • 5. Greeks versus Persians : the decisive confrontations
  • 6. The Athenian Maritime Empire
  • 7. The Peloponnesian War
  • 8. The fourth century : the invention of the Polyremes
  • 9. The rivalry of the Diadochi
  • 10. Rome's first naval adventures
  • 11. Roman supremacy at sea
  • 12. Trade and piracy
  • 13. Fleet and Civil War
  • 14. Maritime policy in the Roman Empire.