The Age of Titans
The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2012
- ISBN 9780195388640
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 234x155x22 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 warfare following the death of Alexander the Great. In what has been described as an ancient naval arms race, the successors of Alexander produced the largest warships of antiquity, some as long as 400 feet carrying as many as 4000 rowers and 3000 marines. Vast, impressive, and elaborate, these warships "of larger form"--as described by Livy--were built not just to simply convey power but to secure specific strategic objectives. When these particular factors disappeared, this "Macedonian" model of naval power also faded away--that is, until Cleopatra and Mark Antony made one brief, extravagant attempt to reestablish it, an endeavor Octavian put an end to once and for all at the battle of Actium. Representing the fruits of more than thirty years of research, The Age of Titans provides the most vibrant account to date of Hellenistic naval warfare.
This book is one of the most interesting and innovative studies I have read in recent years. ... The exposition is clear and logically structured, the argumentation convincing and built up in a systematic way, the style succinct, the information up to date.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Understanding the Big Ship Phenomenon
1. Frontal Ramming and the Development of "Fours" and "Fives"
2. Frontal Ramming: Structural Considerations
3. The Development of Naval Siege Warfare
4. Philo the Byzantine and the Requirements of Naval Siege Warfare
5. Big Ships, Boarding, and Catapults
6. The Culmination of the Big Ship Phenomenon
7. The End of the Big Ship Phenomenon
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: Testimonia for "Fours"
Appendix B: Testimonia for "Fives"
Appendix C: Testimonia for "Sixes" to "Tens"
Appendix D: Testimonia for "Elevens" to "Forty"
Appendix E: Book V of Philo's Compendium of Mechanics-The Naval Sections
Appendix F: Testimonia for Naval Artillery
Glossary
Chronology
Bibliography
Index
