triremes, in the navies of the major Hellenistic kingdoms like Egypt. Perhaps the most famous of the Hellenistic-era warships, because of its extensive use by...
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smaller African elephant. Hellenistic military equipment was generally characterized by an increase in size. Hellenistic-era warships grew from the trireme...
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designs, such as the lembus, the hemiolia and the liburnians. Hellenistic-era warships Pentecopterus, a genus of eurypterid named after the penteconter...
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List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy Greek shipping Hellenistic-era warships ANEK Lines § Fleet Blue Star Ferries § Fleet This disambiguation...
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and rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing. Galleon, a 16th-century armed cargo carriers. Hellenistic galleys, warships propelled by...
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Rome had fallen completely from power in Western Europe. Galley Hellenistic-era warships Ward, Cheryl A (October 2007). "Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian...
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France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
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Leontophoros (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
Baochuan, the Chinese treasure ship Hellenistic-era warships Memnon. History of Heraclea. W. W. Tarn (1930). Hellenistic military and naval developments....
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Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Hellenistic sculpture)
of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed...
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Ptolemaic Kingdom (redirect from Hellenistic Egypt)
BC), the Ptolemaic navy became the largest in the Hellenistic world and had some of the largest warships ever built in antiquity. The navy reached its height...
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Nautical operations (section Warship)
In the Hellenistic era, as civilizations around the Mediterranean grew in size and complexity, both their navies and the Hellenistic-era warships such as...
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crossbow (gastraphetes) Hellenistic era artillery tower with arrow shooters (euthytona) and stone throwers (palintona) Hellenistic era semi-automatic bolt...
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Machine Age (redirect from Machine Era)
The Machine Age is an era that includes the early-to-mid 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be...
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Ships of ancient Rome (section Warships)
In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 86–100. Morrison, John S. "Hellenistic Oared Warships 399-31 BC". In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 66–77. Pryor, John...
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Liburnians (redirect from Liburnian warship)
cultural aspects were retained. Apart from the extended importation of Hellenistic and Italic pottery, and other lesser influences, Liburnian cultural relations...
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Tessarakonteres (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
simply "forty", was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. It was described by a number...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Roman Era)
influence of his adviser Mardonius attempted to restore Classical Roman and Hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of Christian emperors...
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appearance and evolution of medieval warships is a matter of debate and conjecture; until recently, no remains of an oared warship from either ancient or early...
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38–41 Morrison, Coates & Rankov 2000, pp. 48–49 Morrison, John. "Hellenistic Oared Warships 399–31 BC". In Morrison & Gardiner (1995), pp. 66–67. Rankov,...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (category Hellenistic Macedonia)
Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead...
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Ancient Corinth (section Hellenistic period)
Alexander the Great was in control of Greece, as hegemon. During the Hellenistic period, Corinth, like many other Greece cities, never quite had autonomy...
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the underwater archaeological sites of three cities from the pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The eastern part of ancient city of Canopus...
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the Canaanite, Israelite, Hellenistic, Roman (including Herodian) and Byzantine periods. Archaeological finds from Roman-era Sebaste, a site that was rebuilt...
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either killed, captured or lost. During the Hellenistic period, the light trireme was supplanted by larger warships in dominant navies, especially the pentere/quinquereme...
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Classical Greece (redirect from Greek Classical Era)
the Greek Dark Ages and Archaic period and is in turn succeeded by the Hellenistic period. This century is essentially studied from the Athenian outlook...
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earthquakes. It affected the Herodian Kingdom of Judea in the Holy Land. The Hellenistic period ends (or AD 14 by some scholars). Aristobulus IV, Jewish prince...
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Qing dynasty (redirect from Ching era)
Chinese documents be written in English and a proviso granting British warships unlimited access to all navigable Chinese rivers. Ratification of the treaty...
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Syracusia (category Ships of the Hellenistic period)
Discoveries. The History Channel. Season 3, episode 4. Burn, Lucilla (2004). Hellenistic art: from Alexander the Great to Augustus. The British Museum Press....
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Sidon (category Hellenistic colonies)
the mid-fifth century BC onward, warships became a prominent feature on the city's coinage. At the end of the Persian era, in 351 BC, Phoenicia was invaded...
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Song dynasty (redirect from Sung era)
Prince of Hailing) boasted 70,000 men on 600 warships, and the Song forces only 3,000 men on 120 warships, the Song dynasty forces were victorious in both...
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