Ships and sea-power before the great Persian War : : the ancestry of the ancient trireme / / by H.T. Wallinga.

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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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 121
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 121.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 217 pages) :; illustrations.
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