GREEK AND ROMAN NAVAL WARFARE

William Ledyard Rodgers

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

Reviewer Comment:
This is a detailed study of naval warfare, the equivalent of Victor Hanson's studies of Greek hoplite warfare.

Preface

Introduction

I Objectives of Naval Warfare

II Greco-Persian War - Marathon - Appendix - Types of rowing ships

III Greco-Persian Wars - Salamis and Mycale

Appendix I Aeschylus' account of Salamis

Appendix II The forces employed

IV Peloponnesian War

V Dionysius - Sicily and Carthage

VI The Pentere and its Oars

VII Exercises and Strategems of the Greek Fleets

VIII Alexander's Naval Campaigns

IX Naval Wars of Alexander's Successors

Appendix I The great ships of Demetrius aned Ptolemy

Appendix 2 Cost of wars at end of fourth century B.C.

X First Punic War

XI - Second Punic War

XII - War of Rhodes and Pergamum against Macedon

XIII War of Rome and Antiochus

XIV Naval Warfare in the First Century B.C.

XV Naval Wars of Caesar 49 - 45 B.C.

XVI Campaign of Philippi, 42 B.C.

XVII Sicilian War, 38-36 B.C.

Appendix Agrippa's ships

XVIII Campaign of Actium 31 B.C.