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Definition of Thalassocracy
1. Noun. a state whose power derives from its naval or commercial supremacy on the seas ¹
2. Noun. maritime supremacy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thalassocracy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thalassocracy
| thalattocracy thalcusite thaler thalers thalfenisite thali |
Literary usage of Thalassocracy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Greek Coins, Described: By G. F. Hill ... with Thirteen Plates by George Francis Hill (1906)
"... THE thalassocracy OF PHOCAEA circa 602-560 BC 3. Obv. Seal r; below, O Rev.
Two shallow incuse squares of unequal sizes. British Museum. ..."
2. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1907)
"First, for a long time after the fall of Troy there seems to have been no
thalassocracy at all ; and secondly, it is a very long time indeed, certainly 400 ..."
3. The Father of History: An Account of Herodotus by Denton Jaques Snider (1907)
"After the Samian thalassocracy comes the Athenian, which Herodotus saw before
him when writing this passage, and compared it with that of Polycrates, ..."
4. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1911)
"It is nearly a century later that we find the first suggestion of a thalassocracy
of Northern invaders, and even that is ambiguous. The Pelasgians. however ..."
5. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"The traffic of the Phoenicians, to which there are several allusions in the
Homeric Poems, had, no doubt, secured them a sort of thalassocracy before the ..."
6. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"The traffic of the Phoenicians, to which there are several allusions in the
Homeric Poems, had, no doubt, secured them a sort of thalassocracy before the ..."
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