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…

This volume deals with Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BC), particularly as a naval operation.
It examines the traditions preserved by Aischylos, Herodotos, and others against the …

As far as I know the question has always been put in this way, probably unconsciously, and it
certainly has always been answered thus, that there was a standard unit, namely the unit of …

The importance of the Ionian revolt as a stage in the develop-ment of the relations between
Persia and the Greek world is generally recognized in modern studies of these relations and …

In the following pages I propose to defend a new hypothesis concerning the provisions of
the Achaimenid kings in Cilicia Pedias in with the organization of the defence of their coastal …

In modern studies of sixth century Athenian history the tyrants have often been depicted as
important developers of the state, and in particular as responsible for the strengthening of the …

4)" Just as a modern writer will try to fit each break of his subject to the pages of foolscap, if
the writing is to be permanently read in that form". He takes as his unit the line in Sayce's …

Almost half a century ago JS Morrison published his celebrated paper2) concerning the
reconstruction of the Greek trireme. It was the result of the combined efforts of his father as expert …

The one and only mention of the lex Metilia occurs in a chapter of the elder Pliny's Natural
History, which is devoted to the uses of various earths (terrae genera: Nat. 35. 191-202); more …

In recent studies Hesiod's pronouncements on the trading and seafaring of his contemporaries
have been chiefly exploited in determining the social and economic structure of archaic …