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Roman warships
Part II. INTERPRETATION. 1. Sources -- 2. Interpreting the Sources -- 3. Ship Fittings -- PART II THE SHIPS. 4. The Earliest Types: Eighth to Fourth Centuries BC -- 5. Naval Ascendancy: Third and Second Centuries BC -- 6. Civil Wars and Imperial Fleets: First Centuries BC and AD -- 7. Height of Empi...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Woodbridge
: The Boydell Press
, 2011
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81h42 |
| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
Roman warships |
| Verantwortlich: | Michael Pitassi |
| E-Book-Pakete: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
| Zusammenfassung: | Part II. INTERPRETATION. 1. Sources -- 2. Interpreting the Sources -- 3. Ship Fittings -- PART II THE SHIPS. 4. The Earliest Types: Eighth to Fourth Centuries BC -- 5. Naval Ascendancy: Third and Second Centuries BC -- 6. Civil Wars and Imperial Fleets: First Centuries BC and AD -- 7. Height of Empire: Second and Third Centuries AD -- 8. The Late Empire: Fourth and Fifth Centuries AD -- 9. Terminus. The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development of relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy huge fleets and dominate the seas around western Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the great rivers that formed a large part of the eastern boundary of the Roman world. It secured the trade routes and maintained the communications that allowed the Roman Empire to exist. It brought previously untouchable and unreachable enemies to battle and enabled the expansion of Imperial power into areas thought |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 191 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1846159423 1843836106 9781846159428 9781843836100 |
