The Seafaring Activities of the Ancient Romans: An Examination of Merchant Shipping and Naval Power from the Days of the Republic to the Fall of the Empire in the West
Year: 2019 Language: English Author: William S. Stob Genre: History Edition: Kindle Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 110 Description: The ancient Romans were primarily a land-based people, and for them “the ocean remained an object of terror rather than of curiosity.” As Edward Gibbon noted, “Unlike the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the Romans had no inclination to expeditions of mere discovery, and never cared to become acquainted with any country whose remote situation appeared to defy their arms. Vain of their own power and of the extent of their dominions, they did not hesitate, in almost every instance, to bestow the name of barbarians on the civilized inhabitants of India as well as on those of other parts of the world, whose manners or customs were indistinctly known to them. Despising commercial pursuits, they looked to Greece and other nations to regulate their over-sea trade and to supply their wants; and when their fleets obtained the dominion of the sea, their object was less to protect their rapidly extending maritime commerce than to consolidate and preserve their power and dominion upon the land.” Nevertheless, whether out of fear of their seafaring neighbors or desire for world dominance, the Romans eventually became the supreme masters of the Western Mediterranean world both on land and sea, and this work examines the history of their naval power and merchant shipping from the days of the Republic to the Fall of the Empire in the West. Travel by sea had many dangers in the early centuries of the empire, and the stormy voyage and shipwreck of the Apostle Paul as recorded in Acts 27 is examined in the final chapter. It is universally acknowledged and “may be safely asserted, that no historical description of a long voyage and shipwreck has come down to us from ancient times, so circumstantial, accurate, and natural in its details as that which is contained in this remarkable chapter.”
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The Seafaring Activities of the Ancient Romans: An Examination of Merchant Shipping and Naval Power from the Days of the Republic to the Fall of the Empire in the West
Language: English
Author: William S. Stob
Genre: History
Edition: Kindle
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 110
Description: The ancient Romans were primarily a land-based people, and for them “the ocean remained an object of terror rather than of curiosity.” As Edward Gibbon noted, “Unlike the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the Romans had no inclination to expeditions of mere discovery, and never cared to become acquainted with any country whose remote situation appeared to defy their arms. Vain of their own power and of the extent of their dominions, they did not hesitate, in almost every instance, to bestow the name of barbarians on the civilized inhabitants of India as well as on those of other parts of the world, whose manners or customs were indistinctly known to them. Despising commercial pursuits, they looked to Greece and other nations to regulate their over-sea trade and to supply their wants; and when their fleets obtained the dominion of the sea, their object was less to protect their rapidly extending maritime commerce than to consolidate and preserve their power and dominion upon the land.”
Nevertheless, whether out of fear of their seafaring neighbors or desire for world dominance, the Romans eventually became the supreme masters of the Western Mediterranean world both on land and sea, and this work examines the history of their naval power and merchant shipping from the days of the Republic to the Fall of the Empire in the West.
Travel by sea had many dangers in the early centuries of the empire, and the stormy voyage and shipwreck of the Apostle Paul as recorded in Acts 27 is examined in the final chapter. It is universally acknowledged and “may be safely asserted, that no historical description of a long voyage and shipwreck has come down to us from ancient times, so circumstantial, accurate, and natural in its details as that which is contained in this remarkable chapter.”
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