The Navies of Rome

by Pitassi, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781843836001
• ISBN10: 1843836009
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michael Pitassi is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. VII
List of Maps & Illustrations	p. VII
Introduction	p. IX
General Chronology	p. XV
Beginnings: Foundation to the First Punic War, 753 to 264 BC
Foundation and the Etruscans	p. 1
The Early Republic	p. 8
A Roman Warship	p. 18
The Navy Board	p. 30
A Great Naval Power: The First Punic War, 264 to 218 BC
Growing Tensions	p. 43
The First Punic War	p. 51
Victories and Disasters	p. 61
A Disastrous Year	p. 68
The Romans Prevail	p. 73
Interbellum & The Struggle Resumed, 218 to 201 BC
The Adriatic	p. 83
The Second Punic War	p. 87
Cannae - Roman Lowpoint	p. 91
The Tide Turns	p. 102
The Final Act	p. 106
The Growth of Empire, 201 to 86 BC
War in the East: Macedonia	p. 119
War in the East: Seleucia	p. 123
Various Operations	p. 130
The Third Punic War	p. 136
Naval Run-down and Marius	p. 140
The Rise of Piracy	p. 144
The Road to Civil War, 86 to 44 BC
The Growth of Piracy	p. 151
Pompeius: War Against the Pirates	p. 156
Caesar in Gaul and Britannia	p. 159
Caesar Versus Pompeius	p. 165
The Alexandrine War	p. 175
End of the Republic, 44 to 13 BC
Filling the Vacuum	p. 183
The War Against Sextus	p. 186
Octavius versus Antonius	p. 191
The Principate	p. 197
Imperial Fleets	p. 201
Expansion - New Fleets	p. 213
The Early Empire, 12 BC to AD 70
Germania	p. 219
Tiberius	p. 221
Britannia	p. 227
Nero	p. 236
Civil War: Confused Loyalties	p. 238
Apogee and Nadir, AD 71 to 285
The Flavians	p. 253
The Antonines: High Point of Empire	p. 259
Troubled Times	p. 265
Instability and Invasion	p. 270
Three Empires in One	p. 277
Renewal and Decline, AD 285 to 476
Diocletian: a New Beginning	p. 285
Constantine	p. 294
The Empire Divided	p. 300
The Final Acts	p. 307
Kings and Emperors of Rome	p. 315
Navy Personnel Ranks	p. 318
Suggested Crew Levels of Ship Types	p. 320
Glossary of Place Names	p. 323
Glossary of Nautical Terms used	p. 328
Bibliography	p. 331
Index	p. 337
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