This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Early Civilizations, 4000 BCE to 1000 BCE.
1: Egypt, 4000 to 1000 BCE.
2: Delta, Battle of, ca. 1175 BCE.
3: The Khufu Vessels.
4: Punt, Expeditions to.
5: Sea Peoples.
6: The Uluburun Shipwreck.
7: The Aegean Sea, 4000 to 1000 BCE.
8: Homer.
9: Knossos.
10: Mesopotamia, 4000 to 1000 BCE.
11: Dilmun.
12: The Epic of Gilgamesh.
13: Primary Documents.
14: Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, ca. 2100 BCE.
15: “The Shipwrecked Sailor,” ca. 2000–1650 BCE.
16: “Great Inscription of Year 8” and “Inscription Accompanying the Naval Battle,” from Ramesses III’s Mortuary Temple at Medinet Habu, ca. 1175 BCE.
17: The Report of Wenamun, ca. 1189–1077 BCE.
18: Homer, Odyssey, Book 5, lines 244–330, ca. 750–650 BCE.
The Ancient World, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
19: China, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
20: Egypt, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
21: Alexandria.
22: Eudoxus of Cyzicus.
23: Ptolemy, Claudius, ca. 100–170 CE.
24: Greece, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
25: Herodotus, ca. 484–425 BCE.
26: Piraeus.
27: Pytheas of Massalia, ca. 350 BCE to ca. 285 BCE.
28: Salamis, Battle of.
29: Syracusia.
30: Themistocles, ca. 524–23 to 460–59 BCE.
31: Trireme.
32: India, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
33: Phoenicia and Carthage, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
34: Hanno the Navigator, Fifth and Sixth Centuries BCE.
35: Rome, 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
36: Actium, Battle of, 31 BCE.
37: Piracy in the Mediterranean to 300 CE.
38: Punic Wars, 264–146 BCE.
39: Primary Documents.
40: The Voyage of Hanno, ca. 600–400 BCE.
41: Herodotus on Pharaoh Necho II, ca. 484–425 BCE.
42: Julius Caesar Battles the Veneti, ca. 100–44 BCE Excerpt from The Gallic War, 56 BCE.
43: Excerpt from the Pattinapalai, ca. 100 BCE–100 CE.
44: Strabo on Pytheas of Massalia, ca. 64 BCE–24 CE
