CLST 201 Lecture 4: Clst 201 Week 4 (A+ in course)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 201
• Professor: Bernard Kavanagh

Document Summary

)n (cid:884)(cid:888)(cid:886) bc, carthage had the mediteranean(cid:495)s greatest navy rome had no navy. Their engineers studied a scuttled quinquereme (five rows of four rowed by slaves or soldiers) and then built about 100 others, according to that carthage model. Roman strengths: control of italy of the arno, citizen base (romans, latins, sabines) loyal allies (campanians, greek. Italians, also called italiots) the loyal allies were partial citizens. Greeks from italy are called italiots: superior army or infantry. Carthagian strengths: control of most north africa, except egypt, bases in sicily, corsica, sardinia, and spain, greatest fleet in the mediteranean. * the romans have to beat this navy if they want to win. The first naval victory of gauis duilius, in 260 bc at mylae, resulting from the corvus, greek sailors and roman army tactics. * corvus was the iron pole that was dropped on the vessel and immobilizing it and turned the sea battle into a land battle.