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The Roman imperial navy 31 B. C. - A. D. 324
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Emne: Historie
Chester G. Starr.
Utgave: Tredje utgave
Forlag: Ares Publishers, Inc.
Utgivelsesår: MCMXCIII (1993)
ISBN 0-89005-544-0
Preface
THE following pages present an attempt to explore the organization and history of Roman imperial sea power as fully as our sources permit. In accordance with this aim, I have not confined the discussion to the two great Italian fleets of Misenum and Ravenna, although these must necessarily take a central place, but have gone beyond them to a consideration of the provincial fleets and to a study of the manner in which the various flotillas were assigned their proper functions in the maintenance of the Empire. This point of view has dictated my use of the term "navy" for a group of independent squadrons which were never integrated into one formal unit.
Since previous studies on the subject have been few, it has seemed sufficient to indicate them in the List of Abbreviations or to cite the monographs on the provincial fleets at the appropriate points in the text. The imperial navy, indeed, has been sadly neglected; there is no treatment of any length in English, and the works by Continental scholars on various phases of the matter are by now somewhat out of date. One of these, however, I should like to single out both because it is the best and because it has been almost entirely ignored; the outstanding merit of the brief study which Camille de la Berge wrote about 1870 is the more remarkable when one reflects that the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum had not yet at that time assembled the basic evidence in compact form. In any investigation of the imperial navy the eight hundred inscribed stones set up by the members of the several fleets, terse epitaphs for the most part, must form the main building materials. Apart from them we have only a few perfunctory chapters in a thoroughly untrustworthy treatise by the fourth-century Vegetius, scattering references in the literature of the Early Empire, and along with a few coins and papyri some scant aid from archaeology. Such evidence may at times appear to justify Mark Twain's quip: "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Yet these materials grow the richer the more one studies them, and it has seemed possible to form an essentially correct and fairly detailed picture of the navy and of its place in the history of the Roman Empire.
My deep thanks are due first to the American Academy in Rome for the opportunity to travel in the Mediterranean and to complete this study in the United States after August 1939, and secondly to the editors of the Cornell Studies in Classical Philology for publishing it in its present form. To those friends who have encouraged and aided me I have already expressed my appreciation; here I would name in token of respect and gratitude Professor M. L. W. Laistner of Cornell University, who first suggested the present theme to me and has given me most generous help and wise counsel at all times.
CHESTER G. STARR, JR.
Champaign, Illinois,
May 4, 1941
Boken handler om den romerske marinen i perioden fra 31 f.Kr. til 324 e.Kr., som var avgjørende for Romerrikets ekspansjon og maktutøvelse i Middelhavet.
Den romerske marinen, også kjent som Classis, var ansvarlig for sjøkrigføring, beskyttelse av handelsruter og håndhevelse av keiserlig autoritet.
Romerne var opprinnelig ikke en sjøfartsnasjon, men utviklet en mektig marine under den første punerkrigen (264–241 f.Kr.) mot Kartago.
Forfatteren, Chester G. Starr, var en anerkjent historiker som spesialiserte seg på antikkens historie.
Boken handler hovedsakelig om havner, organisasjonsstrukturer, mannskaper, utplasseringer og bruk av de romerske keiserflåtene. Mens bokens fokus er på Romerrikets tidsalder, med særlig oppmerksomhet på reformene til Augustus og Claudius, omhandler et innledende kapittel sjømakt i den sene republikk og tjener til å legge grunnlaget for videre diskusjon.
Sjømakt marine båter skip krig antikken keiser riker sivilisasjoner Middelhavet flåte krigføring handel republikk havner sjøfolk sjøoffiser offiser marineoffiser seiler student universitetet lærer lærebok faglitteratur
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