The age of titans : the rise and fall of the great Hellenistic navies /
Our knowledge of the naval strategies of the Hellenistic Age has advanced thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model of an Athenian trieres (trireme) by the Hellenic Navy during the 1980s. In what has been describe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Our knowledge of the naval strategies of the Hellenistic Age has advanced thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model of an Athenian trieres (trireme) by the Hellenic Navy during the 1980s. In what has been described as an ancient naval arms race, the successors of Alexander the Great produced the largest warships of antiquity, some as long as 400 feet carrying as many as 4000 rowers and 3000 marines. These warships "of larger form" were built not just to simply convey power but to secure specific strategic objectives. When these particular factors disappeared, this "Macedonian" model of naval power also faded away--that is, until Cleopatra and Mark Antony made one brief, extravagant attempt to reestablish it, an endeavor Octavian put an end to once and for all at the battle of Actium. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199932405 0199932409 9780199382255 0199382255 9786613423740 6613423742 9780199909636 0199909636 0199912785 9780199912780 |