Sea, comprises papers with a common subject. The selection of the papers (submitted

to double reading as all papers submitted to the journal), and the initial editing

were by Georgios Theotokis, Aysel Yildiz, and Abdulmennan Mehmet Altintaş. The

final editing of the texts was made by the Editor of the Journal, Vaios Vaiopoulos, with

the contribution of Paolo Scirpo.

The second part of the Volume publishes the papers submitted to the journal according

to the usual procedure of double reading. These articles are published according to the

chronological order of their subjects, as is the usual practice for the Journal. The editing

of this section was made by the Editor of the Journal, Vaios Vaiopoulos, with the contribution of Paolo Scirpo at the final stage.

Part I. War and Conflict in the Mediterranean Sea. Edited by Georgios Theotokis,

Aysel Yildiz, and Abdulmennan Mehmet Altintaş

Introduction by Georgios Theotokis, Aysel Yildiz..................................................................7

A. Naval Technology and Warfare

1. Philip Line: Galley Wars north and south: some observations on the tactics

employed in battles between oared ships in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300..... 15

2. Konstantinos Karatolios: Greek fire, reconsidering a terrifying Byzantine weapon....37

3. Abdulmennan Mehmet Altintaş: Transition of War and Ship Materials between

the Mediterranean and Egypt-Red Sea during the 16th and 17th Centuries........51

4. Gerassimos D. Pagratis: War at sea and trade routes in the Mediterranean

during the Napoleonic period through the reports of Septinsular Republic’s

diplomatic representatives........................................................................................... 67

B. Military Organization and Warfare

5. Med Lakhdar Oulmi: The evolution of the defensive system of the Aurès

(VIII-XII century)........................................................................................................... 83

6. Georgios Theotokis and Aysel Yildiz: Diffusion of military knowledge

in the 17th century Ottoman Empire: the case of Esirî Hasan Ağa’s

“Advices to Commanders and Soldiers”..................................................................105

C. Warfare and Society

7. Juho Wilksman: The rabble: Attitudes towards the armed commoners

and using them in late Byzantine and early Ottoman armies...............................143

8. Efi Argyrou and Sevasti Lazari: The military elite as factor of identity in the Ionian

border between the Venetian and the Ottoman State: Lefkada, 1684-1797................159

9. Andriy Posun'ko: The Splintered Communities: Refugees, Mercenaries,

and Irregulars in the Russian-Ottoman Wars 1806–1812 and 1828-1829.............183

Part II. Edited by Vaios Vaiopoulos

10. Βασίλειος Δημογλίδης: Όψεις θεατρικής αυτοαναφορικότητας

στην Πάροδο του Ίωνα του Ευριπίδη. Μια πιθανή περίπτωση

«παρασατυρικής» παραπεμπτικότητας................................................................207

11. Στέλλα Αλέκου: Ο νομικός λόγος στην Επιστολή της Μήδειας

(Οβιδίου, Ηρωίδες 12).................................................................................................239

12. Antonio Aste: L’Edipo di Seneca: l’angosciosa solitudine del regnum (1-292).......251

13. Luigi Andrea Berto: Riscrivere e colmare i vuoti della storia dei musulmani

e dei cristiani nell’alto Medioevo italiano nei testi narrativi medievali...............259

14. Federico Martino: «Soldati ottomani in un accampamento»:

un dipinto del settecento tra realismo e allusione.................................................. 285

15. Vassiliki E. Vassiloudi and Theodora D. Patrona: Childhood Representations

and Subjectivity in Stratis Haviaras’s When the Tree Sings and The Heroic Age....... 311

16. Book reviews................................................................................................................ 327

17. Guidelines for authors................................................................................................ 341