Ships and sea-power before the great Persian War : the ancestry of the ancient trireme /

This book presents a new theory about the developments in shipping and naval organization that culminated in the invention - around 530 BC in the eastern Mediterranean - of the trireme, and the subsequent adoption of this first specialized warship of antiquity by all the naval powers of the time. Ne...

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Main Author: Wallinga, H. T.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 121.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Sea-power > Greece > History.

Sea-power > Iran > History.

Sea-power.

Triremes.