The navies of Rome
- ISBN: 9781843836001
- Editorial: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2010
- Lugar de la edición: Woodbridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 384
- Idiomas: Inglés
Both welcome and useful. (...) This is a narrative history as well as a focused study of the development of the ships, officers, and crews and the overall naval establishment. Recommended. CHOICE The Roman Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. It secured the trade routes and maintained the communications that allowed the Roman Empire to exist. It brought previously untouchable and unreachable enemies to battle and enabled the expansion of Imperial power into areas thought hitherto inaccessible. Without the support of its navy Rome would have been unable to survive. This work, the result of over a decade of study, examines the role of naval warfare in the development of Europe's first great empire. Mike Pitassi is an independent scholar.
