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Warships of the ancient world : 3000-500 BC / Adrian K. Wood ; illustrated by Giuseppe Rava.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Adrian K., author.
- Series:
- New vanguard ; 196.
- New Vanguard ; 196
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Warships--History.
- Warships.
- Mediterranean Region--History, Naval.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Osprey Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated. A wide variety of galleys and other types of warships were built by successive civilisations, each with their own distinctive appearance, capability and utility. The earliest of these were the Punt ships and the war galleys of Egypt which defeated the Sea People in the first known naval battle. Following the fall of these civilisations, the Phoenicians built biremes and other vessels, while in Greece the ships described in detai
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Chronology BCE; Egypt; Egyptian ships and seafaring; Warships of Rameses III; Tactics, organization and the battle of the Delta; Ships of the Sea Peoples; Minoan Crete; The Minoan Thalassocracy; Minoan ships; Minoan tactics; Bronze Age Syria; Ugarit and the Hittites; Syrian ships; Tactics and the battle of Alasiya; Phoenicia: The Legacy of Ugarit; Phoenician sea power; Phoenician warships; Phoenician naval practices and tactics; Greece; Homeric warlords, warriors and ships; Early pentekonters; Hekatonters; Eikosoroi; Homeric tactics
- Colonial wars (c. 700-500 BCE)Late pentekonters; Triakonters; Archaic tactics and the battle of Alalia; Tyrants and sea power; Polycrates and the Samaina; The end of an era; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Select Secondary Sources; Related Titles; Imprint
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781849089807
- 1849089809
- 9781849089791
- 1849089795
- OCLC:
- 881163490
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