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A Companion to Mediterranean History

机译:地中海历史的伴侣

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At an early stage in his history, man realized that travel by water offered a relatively easy and safe method of travel compared to the difficulties of travel by land. We know this from the Greek epic bard, Homer, who tells us of the great catalogue of ships, a listing of highly developed warships which occupies almost half of book two of Homer's Iliad. If we discount Homer's tale that the ships were sent to rescue the Spartan queen, Helen, from the clutches of her Trojan lover, Paris, it seems likely that around 1200 BCE, the Greeks and Trojans nevertheless locked horns in mortal combat over trading rights in the eastern Mediterranean. We know this also from archaeological evidence which shows the Phoenicians trading at this time across the entire southern Mediterranean and through the "Pillars of Hercules" (Straits of Gibraltar) even as far as Britain. Clearly a ship of the type described by Homer could transport far more in the way of goods for trade or, indeed, weapons of war than even a team of many men attempting to deal with the difficulties and dangers of overland travel.
机译:在他的历史的早期,人意识到与陆路旅行相比,水路旅行提供了一种相对容易和安全的旅行方法。我们从希腊史诗般的吟游诗人荷马那里知道这一点,荷马向我们介绍了众多船只,这是一列高度发达的军舰清单,几乎占荷马的《伊利亚特》第二本书的一半。如果我们不相信荷马的传说,即船只被派去从特洛伊木马情人巴黎的手中救出斯巴达女王海伦,那似乎是在公元前1200年左右,希腊人和特洛伊人仍然在与贸易权有关的致命斗争中锁定了号角。地中海东部。我们从考古证据中也知道这一点,该证据表明,此时腓尼基人在整个地中海南部以及通过“大力神之柱”(直布罗陀海峡)甚至英国进行贸易。显然,荷马所描述的这种类型的船比起试图应对陆路旅行的种种困难和危险的许多人组成的团队,其运输货物的方式甚至是战争武器的方式要多得多。

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