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Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: JHU Press
To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. K
Language: en
Pages: 395
Pages: 395
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-26 - Publisher: BRILL
In The Political Economy of Classical Athens – a Naval Perspective, Barry O’Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which
Language: en
Pages: 436
Pages: 436
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Penguin
Presents a history of the epic battles, the indomitable ships, and the men--from extraordinary leaders to seductive rogues--who established Athens' supremacy, t
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-30 - Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens d
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles