Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
from HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
Summary
ABSTRACT.This contribution describes the expansion of Roman maritime trade from the end of the 3rd century BC to the end of the 2nd century AD. It emphasizes the enormous transformations that took place in the scale and complexity of Roman maritime trade, and the associated infrastructures, as a result of Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean and the growth of the city of Rome. It includes a case study of the rapid rise of traders of Italian origin in the port of Carthago Nova (modern Cartagena) in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC.
RÉSUMÉ.Cette contribution retrace l'essor du commerce maritime romain de la fin du IIIème siècle av. J.-C. à la fin du IIème siècle ap. J.-C. Elle témoigne des transformations énormes qui se sont produites, à l’échelle de l'ampleur et de la complexité du commerce maritime romain, et des infrastructures qui y sont liées, comme le résultat de l'expansion de Rome et de sa conquête de la Méditerranée. Elle inclue une étude de cas sur l'augmentation rapide du nombre de marchands d'origine italienne dans le port de Carthago Nova (actuelle Carthagène) au IIème et Ier siècles av. J.-C.
When, ‘pace terra marique parta’, Publius Cornelius Scipio returned victorious from the battlefield of Zama, in 201 BC, the Senate and the People of Rome granted him a magnificent triumph.2 After eighteen years of conflict, and the terrible invasion of Italy by Hannibal, the second war against the powerful city of Carthage (218–201 BC) was finally over, and with a clear success. The consequences of that victory for the history of a great part of the then-known world were impressive: the city on the Tiber had now unexpectedly extended its domination over the entire Italian Peninsula, over Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, and over the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, de facto dominating the entirety of the Western Mediterranean. Northern Africa and Greece would be added half a century later, following the end of the Third Punic War (149–146 BC) and the sacking of Corinth, also in 146 BC.
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- The Sea in History - The Ancient World , pp. 258 - 267Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017