Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
Ships, sea battles, and naval policy are key features in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides—who served as a general and commanded a squadron of triremes himself (4.104.4-5; 4.106.3)—clearly viewed naval power as the key to supremacy in the Aegean (1.15); Athens' rise to empire and fall from glory was inextricably bound with her fortunes at sea. [par 1]
Editor
Robert B. Strassler
Publisher
Free Press
City
New York
ISBN
9780684828152
Repository Citation
Hirschfeld, N. (1996). Appendix G: Trireme warfare in Thucydides. In R. B. Strassler (Ed.), The Landmark Thucydides: A comprehensive guide to the Peloponnesian War (pp. 608-613). Free Press.
Publication Information
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
