The Blood-Drenched Sea
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The Blood-Drenched Sea

Ships at War in the Ancient Mediterranean

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Blood-Drenched Sea

Ships at War in the Ancient Mediterranean

About this book

This book is an indispensable resource for readers who want to know the whole, comprehensive story of ancient naval warfare. The Blood-Drenched Sea describes all the naval battles and wars fought in the ancient Mediterranean. In one volume are the ships, crews, and leaders who determined the course of ancient history, along with the wars and battles, told through artifacts, extant literary and visual sources, and modern reconstructions—the Egyptian mortuary temple, the Minoan domain, the legendary sack of Troy, the expansion of Greeks throughout the Mediterranean, the Athenian victory over the Persians at Salamis, and the Athenian empire, ruined by one moment of superstition. Then the Romans learned how to build ships, man them, row in tiers, and command fleets, and the volume recounts their contributions to history as well. They fought three wars with Carthage that cost them hundreds of thousands of casualties and expenditures of vast wealth, and they conquered the whole of the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Julius Caesar expanded the empire with the conquest of Gaul and the invasion of Britain, and his adoptive son, Octavian settled the question of who would rule the new empire by winning the naval battle at Actium.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781440871023
eBook ISBN
9798216054832
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Maps and Illustrations
  7. Preface: Wars at Sea
  8. Introduction: The Blue on the Map
  9. Maps
  10. Part One: Turmoil in the Eastern Mediterranean
  11. Part Two: The Spread of Hellenism
  12. Part Three: The Persian Wars
  13. Part Four: The Peloponnesian Wars
  14. Part Five: The Rise of Superpowers
  15. Part Six: The Roman Domination
  16. Part Seven: The Roman Empire
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Classical Sources Cited and/or Translated (by the Author)
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index