Book review

the battle of arginusae: a review

When I don’t know wether to buy a book, I always check the writer’s background. Debra Hamel has a solid Classical historian’s curriculum,...

"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...

"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....

"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 (useful?) Papers

The review I recently published got a lot of interest (well, relatively...). People commented about the general lack of reading material...

"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...