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Piracy in the ancient Mediterranean dates back at least as far as the Bronze Age. The roots of the word "piracy" come from the ancient Greek πειράομαι, or peiráomai , meaning "attempt" (i.e., of something illegal for personal gain).
Piracy spread over the whole of the Mediterranean, making it unnavigable and closed to trade. This caused scarcity of provisions. [2] Appian attributed the escalation of piracy to Mithridates plundering the Roman province of Asia extensively in 88 BCE and the rest of the First Mithridatic War (89–85 BCE). The destitute people who lost their ...
Turner, Robert F. "President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates." in Bruce A Elleman, et al. eds. Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies (2010): 157–172. online; Adrian Tinniswood, Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean, 343 pp. Riverhead Books, 2010.
Jasón, a Jewish archer on the prow of a pirate ship (a painting from Jason's Tomb). Jewish pirates were Jewish people who engaged in piracy.While there is some mention of the phenomenon in antiquity, especially during the Hasmonean period (c. 140–37 BCE), most Jewish pirates were Sephardim who operated in the years following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 ordering the expulsion of Iberia's Jews.
Meanwhile, Metellus was engaged in eradicating piracy in Crete, a task he had undertaken before Pompey was assigned command of the anti-piracy campaign. Metellus was related to the Metellus who had previously served alongside Pompey in Hispania. Crete was considered a significant second base for piracy, following Cilicia in importance.
Their empire was centered on this sea and all the area was full of commerce and naval development. For the first time in history, an entire sea (the Mediterranean) was free of piracy. For several centuries, the Mediterranean was a "Roman Lake", surrounded on all sides by the empire. The empire began to crumble in the 3rd century.
The items have gone on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
Aegean Sea anti-piracy operations of the United States; Ancient Mediterranean piracy; Anglo-Turkish piracy; B. Barbary slave trade; Barbary Wars; Battle of Korakesion; C.