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Notes and Maps for Episode 5

By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. | November 10, 2016 - 21:47 |November 10, 2016 Episode notes

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Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Vol. 11.
John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009.
Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005.
Donald Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969.
Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003 (a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy of which to two previous books are the first volumes).
Lawrence A. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
William Ledyard Rodgers. Greek and Roman Naval Warfare A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). 3rd ed. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1986.
Thucydides. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War. New York : Free Press, 1996.

Greece in the 5th Century BC

The Athenian Empire at the time of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars

The Athenian Empire at the time of the Peloponnesian War

The Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League

The Bosphorous and the Hellespont

The Long Walls and the Piraeus

Corcyra (Corfu) in relation to Italy and mainland Greece.

The Gulf of Corinth

The locations of the Battles of Rhium and Naupactus, 429 BC

Fleet dispositions during the Battle of Naupactus

Pylos and Sphacteria: overview

Pylos and Sphacteria: A more detailed view of hostilities

Major battles of this episode (to 421 BC)

Notes and Maps for Episode 4

By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. | July 22, 2015 - 18:51 |July 24, 2015 Episodes

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Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Aeschylus, The Persians.
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Vol. 11.
Peter Green, The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
G. B. Grundy, The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries; A Study of the Evidence, Literary and Topographical. London, J. Murray, 1901.
John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009.
Herodotus, The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.
Tom Holland, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
William Shepherd & Peter Dennis, Salamis 480 BC: The Naval Campaign that Saved Greece. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.
Barry S. Strauss, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
H. T. Wallinga, Xerxes’ Greek Adventure: The Naval Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005.

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The Oriental Empires before the rise of the Persians

The Achaemenid Empire

Greece at the time of the Greco-Persian War

Greece, the Aegean, and the Ionian coast, with major landmarks and battles indicated

Detail map of Mycale, Miletus, and Lade

The Hellespont and the Bosphorous

Thermopylae and Artemisium

The Strait of Salamis

The Battle of Salamis: The fleets’ original positions

The Battle of Salamis: The Persian advance

The Battle of Salamis: The fleets come into contact

The Battle of Salamis: A modern map

Notes for Episode 3

By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. | February 1, 2015 - 20:54 |February 1, 2015 Episodes

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A video on “Sea Trials of the Trireme Olympias”

Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Lionel Casson. The Ancient Mariners. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Lionel Casson. Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Philip de Souza, Seafaring and Civilization: Maritime Perspectives on World History. London: Profile Books, 2001.

Robert Gardiner, ed., The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995.

Glenn E. Markoe, The Phoenicians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Fik Meijer, A History of Seafaring in the Classical World. London: Croom Helm, 1986.

J. S. Morrison, J. F. Coates, & N. B. Rankov, The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. New York: Anchor Books, 2007.

Notes for Episode 2

By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. | September 10, 2014 - 00:17 |September 10, 2014 Episodes

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“Large Splashes” sample courtesy of CGEffex, taken from www.freesound.org

“Splash” sample courtesy of Kayyy, taken from www.freesound.org

“Water Splashes” sample courtesy of soundscalpel.com, taken from www.freesound.org

“Battle of Elements” sample courtesy of homejrande, taken from www.freesound.org

“Sea Waves” sample courtesy of dkustic, taken from www.freesound.org

“Distant Horns” sample courtesy of Danmitch3ll, taken from www.freesound.org

“Ambient Battle Noise” sample courtesy of pfranzen, taken from www.freesound.org

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Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Lionel Casson. The Ancient Mariners. 2d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Lionel Casson. Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
David Fabre. Seafaring in Ancient Egypt. London: Periplus, 2004/05.
Robert Gardiner, ed. The Earliest Ships. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1996.
Paul Johnstone. The Sea-Craft of Prehistory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Lincoln Paine. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World. New York: Knopf, 2013.
John Holland Rose. The Mediterranean in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Ellen Churchill Semple. The Geography of the Mediterranean Region: Its Relation to Ancient History. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1931.
Adrian K Wood, Warships of the Ancient World: 3000-500 BC. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2013.