The age of titans : the rise and fall of the great Hellenistic navies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012
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| Series: | Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : understanding the big ship phenomenon
- Frontal ramming and the development of "fours" and "fives"
- Frontal ramming : structural considerations
- The development of naval siege warfare
- Philo the Byzantine and the requirements of naval siege warfare
- Big ships, boarding, and catapults
- The culmination of the big ship phenomenon
- The end of the big ship phenomenon