Connecting the ancient world : Mediterranean shipping, maritime networks and their impact / Christoph Schäfer (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schäfer, Christoph, editor.

Series:

Pharos (St. Katharinen, Germany) ; Bd. 38.

Pharos, Studien zur griechisch-römischen Antike ; Band 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchant marine.

History.

Underwater archaeology.

Shipping.

Commerce.

Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History.

Rome--Commerce--History.

Shipping--Mediterranean Region--History.

Shipping--Rome--History.

Trade routes--Rome--History.

Underwater archaeology--Mediterranean Region.

Merchant marine--Mediterranean Region--History.

History, Ancient.

Trade routes.

Mediterranean Region.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : 26 illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rahden/Westf. : Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2016.

Summary:

The volume goes back to an international lecture series at Trier University in summer 2016 and contains a foreword and eight papers. They deal with types of sails (e.g. square rig, artemon, sprit-sail), sailing, and seamanship in the ancient Mediterranean (Whitewright), climatic influences on riverine transport on the Roman Rhine (Franconi), Roman trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea and modelling of routes and duration of ancient travel with modern offshore regatta software (Warnking), an archaeological addendum to the Res Gestae regarding Augustus? contribution to the unification of the maritime world of Imperial Rome by means of extensive building measures of maritime infrastructure in an opus caementitium technique (Hohlfelder), trade and the integration and cultural homogenisation of the Roman Empire (Morley), cities as institutions, markets, and urban centres of consumption and their significance for maritime trade under the Roman Empire (Arnaud), a profit & loss-based business model for Roman maritime grain trade (Warnking), and with olive oil for Roman Germany and some thoughts on Roman long-distance trade, esp. via the Atlantic Ocean and the River Rhine (Schäfer).

Contents:

Preface

Sails, sailing and seamanship in the ancient Mediterranean / Julian Whitewright

Climatic influences on riverine transport on the roman rhine / Tyler V. Franconi

Roman trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea : modeling the routes and duration of ancient travel with modern offshore regatta software / Pascal Warnking

An archaeological addendum to the res gestae : unifying the maritime world of Imperial Rome / Robert L. Hohlfelder

Trade and the integration of the roman empire / Neville Morley

Cities and maritime trade under the roman empire / Pascal Arnaud

A business model for roman maritime trade / Pascal Warnking

Oil for Germany, some thoughts on roman long-distance trade / Christoph Schäfer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783867572668

3867572666

OCLC:

964540662

Publisher Number:

9783867572668

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