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GREEK AND ROMAN NAVAL
WARFARE
William Ledyard Rodgers
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Subtitle: A Study of Strategy, Tactics and
Ship Design frm Salamis (480 B.C.) to zctium (31 B.C.) Naval Institute Press,
Annapolis, Maryland, 1964, 555 pgs., index, maps, bibliograhy, diagrams
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Reviewer Comment:
This is a detailed study of naval warfare, the equivalent of Victor Hanson's
studies of Greek hoplite warfare.
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Preface
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Introduction
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I Objectives of Naval Warfare
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II Greco-Persian War - Marathon - Appendix -
Types of rowing ships
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III Greco-Persian Wars - Salamis and Mycale
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Appendix I Aeschylus' account of Salamis
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Appendix II The forces employed
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IV Peloponnesian War
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V Dionysius - Sicily and Carthage
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VI The Pentere and its Oars
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VII Exercises and Strategems of the Greek
Fleets
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VIII Alexander's Naval Campaigns
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IX Naval Wars of Alexander's Successors
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Appendix I The great ships of Demetrius aned
Ptolemy
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Appendix 2 Cost of wars at end of fourth
century B.C.
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X First Punic War
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XI - Second Punic War
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XII - War of Rhodes and Pergamum against
Macedon
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XIII War of Rome and Antiochus
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XIV Naval Warfare in the First Century B.C.
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XV Naval Wars of Caesar 49 - 45 B.C.
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XVI Campaign of Philippi, 42 B.C.
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XVII Sicilian War, 38-36 B.C.
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Appendix Agrippa's ships
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XVIII Campaign of Actium 31 B.C.
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