The Age of Titans
The Age of Titans

Author: William Michael Murray

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199382255

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The Age of Titans examines how heavy warships crewed by thousands of men developed from the agile triremes so popular during the Greek Classical Age. Following Alexander the Great, a new focus on naval siege warfare explains the rise in popularity of big ship navies and defines the model of naval power they made possible.

A History of Macedonia
A History of Macedonia

Author: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9780198148159

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The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in recounting the impact of Alexander's career, the civil war between the generals, and the final phase of Macedonian history, the wars with Rome.

Phoenicia and the East Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C.
Phoenicia and the East Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C.

Author: Edward Lipiński

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9789068310733

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These proceedings of the conference held in Leuven from the 14th to the 16th of November 1985 contain thirty studies dealing with various aspects of the Phoenician civilization and its expansion around the Eastern Mediterranean in the first millenium B.C. Contributions referring to a geographic area, like Anatolia, the Aramaic world, the trade between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Cyprus, Greece, alternate with studies referring to the cult of Phoenician deities in the region concerned: Tanit, Resheph, Baal Saphon, Heracles. Other papers deal with Phoenician artefacts, institutions, or economic activities, as well as with Phoenician history according to Greek classical or Hellenistic authors. On the whole, the volume constitutes an up-to-date description of the Phoenician culture spreading in the East Mediterranean world from the beginning of the first millenium B.C. and having a lasting impact on the civilization of the countries involved.