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EBOOK Age of Titans:The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912780
EAN: 13690CEDEB
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Stron: 384
Data wydania: 2011
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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 following the death of Alexander the        Great. In what has been described as an ancient naval arms race, the successors of        Alexander produced the largest warships of antiquity, some as long as 400 feet        carrying as many as 4000 rowers and 3000 marines. Vast, impressive, and elaborate,        these warships "e;of larger form"e;--as described by Livy--were built not just to simply        convey power but to secure specific strategic objectives. When these particular        factors disappeared, this "e;Macedonian"e; model of naval power also faded away--that        is, until Cleopatra and Mark Antony made one brief, extravagant attempt to        reestablish it, an endeavor Octavian put an end to once and for all at the battle of        Actium. Representing the fruits of more than thirty years of research, The Age of        Titans provides the most vibrant account to date of Hellenistic naval        warfare.

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