Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, pp vii 248, index, bibliography, b/w illustrations, map.

Good to very good, a couple of small marks but overall nice clean pages. In good to very good dustcover.

Contents:

The Aegean 3000-1100 BC; the dark ages; the age of expansion; Greeks versus Persians: the invasion of the Trireme - the decisive confrontation; the Athenian maritime empire; the Peloponnesian war; the fourth century: the invention of the polyremes; the rivalry of the Diadochi; Rome's first naval adventures; Roman supremacy at sea; trade and piracy; fleet and civil war; maritime policy in the roman empire.