Piracy in the Ancient World

by Henry Arderne Ormerod

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, Omerod's classic Piracy in the Ancient World brings the treachery of the ancient high seas alive. Drawing on the works of Homer and Thucydides and the historical records that have survived from ancient Greece and Rome, Ormerod reconstructs the dangers of coastal living and seafaring and the attempts to protect against the threat of invasion from the seas.

Seaborne brigands were greatly feared in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801855055
• ISBN13: 9780801855054
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"