Sailing from Polis to Empire
Sailing from Polis to Empire

Author: Emmanuel Nantet

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 9781783746989

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"What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data - literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological - to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don't think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life."--Publisher's website.

Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period
Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period

Author: Emmanuel Nantet

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2020-07-22

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1783746963

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What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data – literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological – to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don’t think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life.

Sailing from Polis to Empire
Sailing from Polis to Empire

Author: Alexander Belov

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13:

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What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data - literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological - to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don't think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life.

Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-07

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9004407677

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Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World
Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World

Author: Thomas F. Tartaron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-27

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1107067138

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In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity.

The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity
The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity

Author: Valeriya Kozlovskaya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1107019516

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The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity brings together the latest research on an important region of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Hellenistic Economies
Hellenistic Economies

Author: Zofia H. Archibald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-01-16

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1134565925

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This book breaks new ground by distilling and presenting new and newly-reinterpreted evidence for the Hellenistic era and offering a compelling new set of interpretative ideas to the debate on the ancient economy.

Archaic and Classical Harbours of the Greek World
Archaic and Classical Harbours of the Greek World

Author: Chiara Maria Mauro

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 178969129X

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A study of the archaeology and history of ancient harbours, with particular focus on the Greek world during the Archaic and Classical eras. It questions what locations were the most propitious for the installation of harbours; what kinds of harbour-works were built and for what purpose; and what harbour forms were documented.

The Hellenistic Gulf
The Hellenistic Gulf

Author: Andreas P. Parpas

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-18

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781535352772

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The book deals with the Hellenistic naval presence in the Persian Gulf. The Seleukids, who inherited a big part of Alexander's Empire, they built a Western Empire in the East that included the Persian Gulf. All the available evidence leads to believe that there was a continuous Hellenistic naval domination in the Persian Gulf that started with Alexander at the end of the fourth century B.C. and continued by the Seleukids and the Charakeneans until the end of the Hellenistic period. The Seleukids colonized the Gulf and South Mesopotamia with important settlements like at Alexandria on the Tigris-Antiochia-Charax Spasinou, Antiochia in Persis, Seleukeia on the Erythrean Sea and on the Hedyphon, Tylos and at the Strait of Hormuz. Their domination of the Gulf was achieved through the establishment of the Eparchy of the Erythrean Sea in South Mesopotamia and the maritime district Tylos and the islands with Bahrain as their naval Headquarter. We can therefore talk of the creation of a Hellenistic Gulf during the Hellenistic period. The book examines archaeological and epigraphic evidence as well as literal and numismatic evidence and its findings are supported by site visits and a close cooperation with scholars from the University of Kuwait, University of Basra and Bahrain History and Archaeological Society.

The Ancient Greek Economy
The Ancient Greek Economy

Author: Edward M. Harris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1107035880

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Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.