Hellenistic and Roman Naval Warfare 336BC - 31BC

In "Hellenistic and Roman Naval Wars 336BC-31BC" author J.D. Grainger attempts to draw an overall view of naval warfare in a period going from Alexander`s campaigns to Actium. Of course such huge undertaking could be done in many ways and the size of the book, some two hundred pages, meant that some events could not be covered in this book. The nature of the sources is also an issue for who wants to look at such questions, with many of the wars of the period being badly or incompletely described, not to mention of the usual bias which will, for example, see the Achean league politician Polybius heap insults on the Aetolian league`s "pirates", which contributes to our difficulties in understanding the topic...

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