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The age of titans : the rise and fall of the great Hellenistic navies /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, William Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
Subjects:
Naval history, Ancient.
Naval art and science > Greece > History.
Greece > History, Naval.
Histoire navale ancienne.
Art et science navals > Grèce > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
Naval art and science
Naval history, Ancient
Greece
Electronic books.
History
Naval history
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding the big ship phenomenon
  • Frontal ramming and the development of "fours" and "fives"
  • Frontal ramming : structural considerations
  • The development of naval siege warfare
  • Philo the Byzantine and the requirements of naval siege warfare
  • Big ships, boarding, and catapults
  • The culmination of the big ship phenomenon
  • The end of the big ship phenomenon.