"Lords of the sea" by John Hale, a review
"Lords of the sea" is the story of the rise and fall of Athenian thalassocracy from the V to the IV century, with a specific focus on the...
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- 7 mar 2021
- 2 min
"The Athenian Trireme" by J. Morrison et al., a review
The history and reconstruction of an ancient Greek warship: the subtitle of the book by Morrison, Coates and Rankow really says it all....
- 25 ott 2020
- 1 min
"Building the trireme" by F. Welsh, a review
Welsh was a journalist and a writer, and is the guy who had the idea of building a trireme. He then went on to actually do it, and built...
- 3 set 2020
- 1 min
3 (useful?) Papers
The review I recently published got a lot of interest (well, relatively...). People commented about the general lack of reading material...
- 17 ago 2020
- 2 min
"Great naval battles of the ancient greek world": a review
I feared that this book by Owen Rees was one of those basic, superficial booklets for war nerds barely more serious than an Osprey. It...
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