Research Catalog

Title

Homeric seafaring / Samuel Mark.

Author

Mark, Samuel (Samuel EuGene)

Publication

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.

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Description

257 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this comprehensive history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that the Greeks build ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 B.C. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark draws on scholarly literature as well as examples of recent excavations of ancient shipwrecks." "As befits a study whose subjects are partly historical, partly archaeological, and partly myth and legend, Mark's conclusions are tentative. Yet, this comprehensive and meticulous study of Homer's references to ships and seafaring is sure to become a standard study on the subject."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series

Uniform Title

• Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Greece > History, Naval
• Homer > Naval art and science
• Homer > Sailors
• Naval art and science > Greece
• Naval art and science in literature
• Navigation > Greece
• Sailors in literature
• Seafaring life in literature
• Ships in literature
• Ships, Ancient > Greece

Genre/Form

Naval history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. [223]-233) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The cultural context of the Iliad and the Odyssey -- 3. Society, economics, and trade -- 4. Hull construction -- 5. Odysseus builds a seagoing vessel -- 6. Homeric ships -- 7. Seafaring on the wine dark sea -- 8. Anchoring and anchorages -- 9. Geography -- 10. Summary.

ISBN

1585443913 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004015208

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library