Description - Piracy in the Ancient World by Henry A. Ormerod
Responding to the threat of piracy, the ancient Greeks established their primary cities inland for protection and even in their North African and Sicilian Outposts they left coastal land uncultivated. Mariners feared pirate ships around every promonotory and sought protection from the navies of such states as Rhodes and Crete. The Romans were beset in the time of their early "Tyrreanean" pirates based in the south of Italy and during the last years of the Empire by the Cicilian pirates of Asia Minor. Drawing on the works of Homer and Thucydides and the historical records that have survived from ancient Greece and Rome, this work reconstructs the dangers of coastal living, seafaring and the attempts to protect against the threat of invasion from the seas. It describes the general nature of early piracy, ancient navigation, and the pirates routines and objectives.
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