The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times

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Princeton University Press, 1991 - 246 pages
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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.

 

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Twas actually a good book, a lot of history on seafaring but not so many minute details that you felt like you had to slog your way through it. Although it was written in 1991, it is still a good read today, nothing is lost or changed as often happens with historical non-fiction. Consulter l'avis complet

Table des matières

Landlubbers to Sea Lords
143
East Meets West
157
New Light on Ancient Ships and Shipping
170
The Pirates of Cilicia
177
Rome Rules the Waves
184
All Routes Lead to Rome
198
An End and a Beginning
213
Table of Dates
219

The Merchants of Athens
97
Beyond the Pillars of Hercules
116
The Age of Titans
127
Notes
223
Index
235
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Page 64 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 63 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ; and my servants shall be with thy servants : and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Page 63 - I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and I will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them : and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 211 - And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus...
Page 63 - And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil : thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
Page 121 - Liby-Phoenician cities. He sailed accordingly with sixty ships of fifty oars each, and a body of men and women to the number of thirty thousand, and provisions and other necessaries.
Page 17 - Minos is the first to whom tradition ascribes the possession of a navy. He made himself master of a great part of what is now termed the Hellenic sea...
Page 49 - Remain until morning by the king.' " When morning came he sent and had me brought up, when the divine offering occurred in the fortress where he was, on the shore of the sea. I found him sitting in his upper chamber, leaning his back against a window, while the waves of the great Syrian sea beat against the behind him. I said to him: "Kindness of Amon!" He said to me: "How long is it until this day since thou eamest away from the abode of Amon?" I said: "Five months and one day until now.

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À propos de l'auteur (1991)

Lionel Casson is a professor emeritus of classics at New York University and has written many books about life in the ancient world, including Travel in the Ancient World, Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, and Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, all available from Johns Hopkins.

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