Lionel Casson
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Lionel Casson's Degrees
- PhD Classics Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lionel Casson was a classicist, professor emeritus at New York University, and a specialist in maritime history. He earned his B.A. in 1934 at New York University, and in 1936 became an assistant professor. He later earned his Ph.D. there during 1939. In 2005 he was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal.
Lionel Casson's Published Works
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- Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (1973) (523)
- Travel in the Ancient World (1974) (212)
- The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (1990) (200)
- The Periplus Maris Erythraei (1989) (196)
- Indo‐Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper (2009) (107)
- Harbour and River Boats of Ancient Rome (1965) (99)
- Libraries in the Ancient World (2017) (92)
- Ancient Trade And Society (1984) (85)
- Ships and seafaring in ancient times (1994) (80)
- Rome's Trade with the East: The Sea Voyage to Africa and India (1980) (76)
- The Ancient Mariners (1959) (75)
- Speed under Sail of Ancient Ships (1951) (67)
- Book Reviews: The Ancient Mariners. Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times (1959) (58)
- The Grain Trade of the Hellenistic World (1954) (55)
- Greek oared ships, 900-322 B.C. (1968) (50)
- The Isis and Her Voyage (1950) (46)
- Ptolemy 11 and the Hunting of African Elephants (1993) (46)
- The Athenian Upper Class and New Comedy (1976) (45)
- The Role of the State in Rome's Grain Trade (1980) (41)
- Hemiolia and Triemiolia (1958) (23)
- Comment on‘The ship of Bishop Synesius’(IJNA 15:67‐9) (1987) (23)
- MORE EVIDENCE FOR LEAD SHEATHING ON ROMAN CRAFT (1978) (22)
- Archaeology of the Boat: A New Introductory Study (1977) (21)
- Periplus Maris Erythraei: Three Notes on The Text (1980) (18)
- The Harley Lyrics (1950) (18)
- Bronze Age ships. The evidence of the Thera wall paintings (1975) (16)
- Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (1998) (16)
- The romance of Sir Degrevant (1952) (11)
- Odysseus' Boat (Od., V, 244-257) (1964) (9)
- Ancient Shipbuilding: New Light on an Old Source (1963) (8)
- The Feeding of the Trireme Crews and an Entry in IG ii 2 1631 (1995) (8)
- FORE-AND-AFT SAILS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (1956) (8)
- Two-masted Greek ships (1980) (7)
- Selected Satires of Lucian (2008) (7)
- New evidence for Greek merchantmen (1996) (7)
- The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. - Second Edition (1992) (7)
- Papyri and Ostraca from Karanis, Second Series (1953) (6)
- The Thera ships (1978) (6)
- Odysseus's boat (Od. 5.244–53) (1992) (5)
- Sakas versus Andhras in the Periplus Maris Erythraei (1983) (5)
- Tax-Collection Problems in Early Arab Egypt (1938) (4)
- THE SPRIT-RIG IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (1960) (4)
- Sewn Boats (Virgil, Aen. Vi. 413–14) (1963) (4)
- Excavations at Nessana, Volume 2: Literary Papyri (1951) (4)
- Coins, culture and history in the ancient world : numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell (1981) (4)
- Periplus Maris Erythraei: notes on the text (1982) (4)
- The Sea route to India: Periplus Maris Erythraei 57 (1984) (4)
- Illustrated history of ships & boats (1964) (4)
- Periplus Maris Erythraei 36: Teak, Not Sandalwood (1982) (4)
- The location of Tabai (Periplus Maris Erythraei 12–13) (1986) (4)
- THE SUPER-GALLEYS OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE (1969) (3)
- The administration of Byzantine and early Arab Palestine (1952) (3)
- Traders and trading: Classical Athens (1979) (3)
- Rethinking the Mediterranean ‐ Edited by W. V. Harris (2008) (3)
- Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco‐Roman Exploration of the Atlantic ‐ by Duane W. Roller (2007) (2)
- A trireme for hire(Is. 11. 48) (1995) (2)
- Trade in the Ancient World (1954) (2)
- The Plays of Menander (1972) (2)
- The World’s First Museums (1973) (1)
- Excavations at Nessana. Volume II: "Literary Papyri" (1951) (1)
- The Barbarian Kings (1982) (1)
- Odysseus and Scylla on a Roman terracotta mould (1978) (1)
- The Nautical Imagery in Anthologia Graeca 10.23 (1992) (1)
- Mysteries of the Past (1977) (1)
- European Economic History. Volume 1, The Ancient World (1974) (1)
- The Corrupting Seaa study of Mediterranean history (2003) (1)
- Homeric Seafaring ‐ by Samuel Mark (2007) (1)
- Masters of Ancient Comedy (1961) (1)
- Latin and Greek in Current Use (1949) (1)
- The Emergency Rig of Ancient Worships (1967) (1)
- Maecius Celer's ship (1968) (1)
- Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus ‐ by A. Bernard Knapp (2009) (0)
- I. Early Greek Harbors (1986) (0)
- Book Review: Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World (2000) (0)
- Note on a Nile Boat (1942) (0)
- Chapter Nine. Sailing Ships (1986) (0)
- The Isis and Her Voyage: A Reply (1956) (0)
- Chester G. Starr, The Roman Imperial Navy 31 B.C.- A.D. 324 (1961) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. All Routes Lead to Rome (1992) (0)
- The Maritime World of Ancient Rome (2009) (0)
- Chapter Eight. Merchant Galleys (1986) (0)
- Addenda and Corrigenda (1986) (0)
- Illustrations 111-147 (1986) (0)
- Rome's Maritime Trade with the Far East (1988) (0)
- Illustrations 148-196 (1986) (0)
- Glossary of Nautical Terms (1986) (0)
- Chapter Four. The Eastern Mediterranean: 1000-500 B.C. (1986) (0)
- Which End is Which? (2006) (0)
- Chapter Seven. The Roman Imperial and Byzantine Navies (1986) (0)
- Chapter Twelve. Seasons and Winds, Sailing, Rowing, Speed (1986) (0)
- Illustrations 1-67 (1986) (0)
- Chapter Thirteen. Markings and Names (1986) (0)
- II. Greek and Roman Naval Bases (1986) (0)
- Chapter Thirteen. Officers and Men (1986) (0)
- Chapter Six. The Warships of the Hellenistic Age: 323-31 B.C. (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Pirates of Cilicia (1992) (0)
- Chapter Fourteen. Small Craft (1986) (0)
- III. Greek and Roman Commercial Harbors (1986) (0)
- Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome. By Robert A. Kaster. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 245. $45.00.) (2007) (0)
- Chapter Five. The Age of the Trireme: 500-323 B.C. (1986) (0)
- Chapter VIII. Ancient Shipping in the Portus Cosanus (2017) (0)
- 9. Toward the Middle Ages (2017) (0)
- Chapter Eleven. Rudder, Rigging, Miscellaneous Equipment (1986) (0)
- Chapter Ten. Shipbuilding (1986) (0)
- Chapter Three. The Eastern Mediterranean: 3000-1000 B.C. (1986) (0)
- The Copenhagen sarcophagus again (1976) (0)
- The Illuminated Ark: Investigating Evidence from Manuscript Illuminations and Archaeological Remains for Medieval Vessels ‐ by Joe Flatman (2008) (0)
- Illustrations 68-110 (1986) (0)
- Six plays of Plautus (1964) (0)
- Book Review: Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (2001) (0)
- The Dance of the Islands ‐ by Christy Constantakopoulou (2009) (0)
- Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet by Johan Henrik Schreiner (2006) (0)
- A Land Called Crete: A Symposium in Memory of Harriet Boyd Hawes, 1871-1945 (1969) (0)
- The Greek and Latin sources for the southwestern coast of Arabia (1995) (0)
- CHAPTER NINE. The Merchants of Athens (1992) (0)
- Masters of Ancient Comedy: Selections from Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence (1980) (0)
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. New Light on Ancient Ships and Shipping (1992) (0)
- Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms (1986) (0)
- The Greek Conquerors (0)
- Chapter Two. Egypt and Mesopotamia (1986) (0)
- Wine Measures and Prices in Byzantine Egypt (1939) (0)
- Chapter One. Floats, Rafts, and the Earliest Boats (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Wooden Walls (1992) (0)
- Life in Ancient Rome (2015) (0)
- Skippers on the Nile in ancient times (1994) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. The Dawn of Maritime Exploration (1992) (0)
- Statius, Thebaid (1963) (0)
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