| Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) |  | Author: H. T. Wallinga
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4011036
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 9004096507
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.030938
EAN: 9789004096509
ASIN: 9004096507
Publication Date: January 1993
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This work presents a new theory about the development in shipping and naval organization that culminated in the invention - around 530 BC in the eastern Mediterranean - of the trireme, and the subsequent adoption of this first specialized warship of antiquity by all the naval powers of the time. New interpretations are proposed of Greek and Assyrian iconographic data and of hitherto ignored evidence in Herodotus and Thucydides, and the non-military factors determining developments are emphasized. Thucydides' fundamental essay on the genesis of Greek sea-powers is studied in depth, the rarity of these sea-powers is stressed and the peculiar background of the naval power of Phokaia and the Samian tyrant Polykrates exposed. The problem of the trireme's place of origin, the factors determining its invention, probably in Saite Egypt, and its immediate adoption by the Persian king Cambyses are discussed. The first naval operations of the Persians are surveyed, reasons and circumstances of the trireme's introduction into the navies of the Greek city-states analyzed with special attention for Themistocles' navy bill. The book offers ancient historians and classical philologists a radically new approach to archaic maritime and naval history. It should also be useful to (nautical) archaeologists.
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