Warships of the Ancient World - 3000-500 BC

Name: Warships of the Ancient World - 3000-500 BC
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ISBN: 9781849089784

ISBN-10: 1849089787

ISBN-13: 9781849089784

Edition: 2013

Authors: Adrian Wood, Giuseppe Rava

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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 detail in the 'Trojan' epics established a tradition of warship building culminating in the pentekonters…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 48
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Adrian Wood is a documentary filmmaker living in London, England.



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 Index


Index