The Ancient Mariners (eBook)

Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. - Second Edition

Lionel Casson (Autor)

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2020 | 2. Auflage
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21299-9 (ISBN)

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Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first published in 1959, especially that from archaeology's newest branch, marine archaeology. Casson does what no other author has done: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aegean • Africa • Alexandria • amphibious warfare • Anatolia • Ancient history • archaeology • Asia Minor • Barbary Pirates • Black Sea • Blockade • Bosphorus • Brail • brails • Byblos • Carthage • Carthage, Carthaginians • catapults • Cilicia • Copper • courtesy • Cyprus • Dardanelles • dowel • Dromon • Eastern Mediterranean • Edition (book) • Egypt, Egyptians • egyptians • Ephesus • Etruscan Civilization • European Library • exploration • First Punic War • flotilla • Frankincense • Galley • Garum • gems • Gibraltar • Grain • Greeks • Greek World • Gunwale • Hatshepsut • Hellenistic-era warships • Hellenistic period • Homer • Illustration • Illyrians • Indian Ocean • Italy • ivory • Jason • Kenamun • Lateen • Lebanon • Levant • Macedon • Mainsail • Marines • Maritime History • Marseille • Marseilles • Mast (sailing) • Mediterranean Sea • minoan civilization • Miscellany • Mortise and tenon • Mycenae • Mycenaean Greece • Myrrh • narrative • Naval base • naval warfare • Navigation • Navy • Near East • Nile • North Africa • olive oil • Ostia (Rome) • Papyrus • PASION • pelias • Penteconter • Persia, Persians • Philistines • Phoenicia • Phormio • Piracy • Portus • Pottery • Pozzuoli • prow • Ptolemaic Kingdom • Publication • pytheas • quinquereme • Red Sea • Rekhmire • Rhodes • Roman Army • Roman navy • Russia • Sahure • Sailing • Sailing ship • Sails • Sea lane • second punic war • Shipbuilding • Ship of the line • sicily • southern Italy • Southern Russia • Spain • Squadron (naval) • Steering oar • stevedore • Strait of Gibraltar • Strait of Messina • Syria • Thucydides • Thutmose III • thwart • Tiber • Tjeker • Trade Route • trireme • Tyrrhenian Sea • Underwater Archaeology • Upper Egypt • warfare • winds
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21299-6 / 0691212996
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21299-9 / 9780691212999