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The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)

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 | #2192443 in Books |  2012-01-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.10 x9.30l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Nose to Nose|By P. Weiser|This book presents (IMHO) a fascinating theory of why the really big ships - much bigger than a five (quinquereme) - were worth the tremendous cost and engineering investment. Included is a lesser theory on why a five was superior to a trireme, and a reconstruction of the Battle of Actium based on how fives and other mid-size galleys operated.
||"This is an original work of sound scholarship. Specialists in ancient naval history will benefit from this book and students of classical antiquity will also profit from it."--Anthony J. Papalas, Classical Journal||"Murray's ground-breaking study of

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete. However, 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, we now have new insights into the evolution of naval warfare foll...

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