29 lug 20232 minthe battle of arginusae: a reviewWhen I don’t know wether to buy a book, I always check the writer’s background. Debra Hamel has a solid Classical historian’s curriculum,...
4 set 20213 min"Lords of the sea" by John Hale, a review"Lords of the sea" is the story of the rise and fall of Athenian thalassocracy from the V to the IV century, with a specific focus on the...
7 mar 20212 min"The Athenian Trireme" by J. Morrison et al., a reviewThe history and reconstruction of an ancient Greek warship: the subtitle of the book by Morrison, Coates and Rankow really says it all....
25 ott 20201 min"Building the trireme" by F. Welsh, a reviewWelsh was a journalist and a writer, and is the guy who had the idea of building a trireme. He then went on to actually do it, and built...