The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies

by William M. Murray

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199382255
• ISBN13: 9780199382255
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"