10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THALASSOCRAT»
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1
The Henchmen's Book Club
“I would've if it had been up to me, but Thalassocrat had ordered us to bring him
any prisoners,” I explained, which was an understatement to say the least.
Thalassocrat had been most insistent on this point. He'd bullshitted us that he
wanted ...
The first entry in his thalassocrat list can therefore not have begun before the next
sailing season, 1183/2. Similarly at the lower terminus : the Aegean was
commanded by the Persian fleet in the year of the diabasis, 481/0, which must
therefore ...
-crat (rule, hold) as in thalassocrat); lit. ruling of the seas; nm thalassokratoras
thalassocrat; lit. ruler of the seas. a - like a, as in past 0, W, 0) - like о, 215 111
1101 6, 211 - like e, as in tell 1, y, 61, 01, у1 - like i (all same), as in tip
thalassólykos, ...
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The Imaginary Polis: Symposium, January 7-10, 2004
The four texts considered here represent Minos as oikistes, nomothetes and
thalassocrat, but their representations are not identical. There are, to be sure,
traces of the strong tradition that identified Minos as the first to organise the
settlement of ...
Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005
5
Enduring Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
But in the grand scheme of things the Greeks, with their maritime traditions, made
a more credible Aegean thalassocrat than the Persians, a land power in the
tradition of Near Eastern empires from the Akkadians to the Assyrians.15 Persia
had ...
David Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski, 2009
6
Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical ...
... colonies'.10 As has been noticed, Minos' proleptic mention in this narrative
arrangement suggests analogies between his thalassocracy and that of the
Athenians.'11 Ionianism Thucydides makes the mythical Minos the first
thalassocrat, and.
7
Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary
At 4.60.2–3 we learn that Minos son of Zeus was Minos I, and the thalassocrat
was actually Minos II his grandson ('who some say was son of Zeus'); this cannot
be reconciled with 5.78 (in the Epimenides fr.), or 5.84.2, where Minos son of ...
8
Myths of Greece and Rome
not the sea incarnate, is certainly ruler over the sea Pontomedon; or, as we
should call it nowadays, thalassocrat. He is also Hippios (HeoftheHorse), and,
lastly, he is Taureus (HeoftheBull). Could any aspectsbe more incompatible?
Howdoes a ...
Jane Ellen Harrison, 1928
9
Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Essays
The THALASSOCRAT. There dawned upon the history-sensitive mind of young
Toynbee that, as a citizen of the world's No. 1 naval power, he too was a
thalassocrat. There was borne in upon him, if not the outlines of his grand design,
...
Whittaker Chambers, Terry Teachout, 1996
10
The Earth Book of Stormgate
'We shall not imperil you,' he promised the Thalassocrat. 'How real is the threat?'
Nakamura asked. The League wouldn't take kindly to slaughter of harmless
autochthons.' 'But the League would not necessarily do more than complain,' ...
