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Title: Greek and Roman Naval Warfare; A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (31 B.C.) by William Ledyard Rodgers ISBN: 0-87021-226-5 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1964 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad Georgaphy
Comment: An interesting book when it comes to sailing, although the author has no knowledge of the sea and the terrain of Ancient Greece and Italy. Avoid it if you are interested in naval history and naval warfare. Living in these lands makes this book look like an anti Greek propaganda.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book for the Basics of Ancient Med. naval Warfare...
Comment: It has it's limitations in that it almost entirely relies upon ancient sources for it's conclusions, and not much on Archaeology or [obviously] modern scholarship.
It's age is one of it's virtues, however. It was written at a time when Classical scholarship was much less specialized and narrow, and allowed for a more general and sweeping overview of a fascinating and immensely important subject.
I disagree with one reviewer's complaints about Rodgers' criticism of Herodotus. He was, in many ways, a purveyor of legends and fanciful tall tales. Especially when you compare his historical skills to the great Greek historians who came later such as Thyucidides and Polybius. And thank God for Both Thyucidides and Polybius. Especially Thyucidides who is our most reliable ancient source for Classical Greek naval tactics. [Along with Xenophon].
And without Polybius, we would have almost no reliable record [other than the often suspect Diodorus]of the very overlooked, but immensely important and history changing First Punic War. Arguably, the First Punic War was the most important war in Western history because, as a result of it's occurrnce, Rome became the most powerful naval power in the Mediterranean by defeating one of the most powerful Hellenistic naval powers of the time, Carthage, on it's own turf. Thus, setting the stage for all of Rome's future expansion.
This is a great book to start with, if you are interested in Ancient Mediterranean naval warfare. And it's written by a person in a position to know and understand the practicalities of what the ancient sources have reported. Another lost tradition of modern scholarship. It's better to have a well-written and reserached general overview of ancient naval warfare written by an Admiral, than it is, sometimes, to have a narrow treatise written by an academic sitting in a dusty cubicle.
At least that's my opinion.
Rating: 1
Summary: A study on how to falsify history
Comment: Calling Herodotus, the father of history, "inaccurate" and "a person who wrote tales" is considered among the historians of any time equal to blasphemy. Altering historical facts, and creating conclusions based upon imagination and modern standards is not only a crime against the memory of the ancient Greeks but also a crime against humanity. Never before have I read a book written about ancient Greece, that is so much against anything Greek. It is for sure the first time that I read that Leonidas, the 300 Spartans and the 2,000 Greeks who were sacrificed for preserving the democracy and freedom of ancient Europe in Thermopiles, where just a few cowards that withdrew in the face of the enemy surrounding them. It is crazy even to consider that the same soldiers who were fighting for six (and not two as the author states) days against 500,000 soldiers got scared and betrayed their fellow fighters and fled living the back of the Spartans open.
The strategic conclusions made on this book are completely inaccurate, since the author never visited neither Greece nor Rome. Reading the book up to page 106 when the Persian wars were concluded the author does not manage to make a single correct remark as he is totally ignorant of Greek geography and morphology, and most of all Greek way of leaving and thinking.
I was never before so disappointed from buying a book as much as I did when I bought and tried to read: Greek and Roman Naval Warfare; A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C. to Actium) by William Ledyard Rodgers
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Title: The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship by J. S. Morrison, J. F. Coates, N. B. Rankov ISBN: 0521564565 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries; A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. by William Ledyard, Rodgers ISBN: 087021487X Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Ancient Mariners by Lionel Casson ISBN: 0691014779 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 26 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper Ships (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Henry B. Culver, Gordon Grant ISBN: 0486273326 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World (3000 B.C. to 500 A.D.): Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics by Simon Anglim, Phyllis G. Jestice ISBN: 0312309325 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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