Naval History Podcast – with Buckner F. Melton, Jr.

An exciting discovery: Ancient Greek trading vessel, world’s oldest intact shipwreck!

Although how a shipwreck can be intact I’m not quite sure. Nevertheless, this is a huge discovery. if only they could discover a trireme . . .

Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Book 13.
Marc G. de Santis, A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC. Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Maritime 2017.
John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009.
Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005.
Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003 (a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy.
Lawrence A. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. New York: Modern Library, 2001. (The life of Alcibiades is the most important one here.)
William Ledyard Rodgers. Greek and Roman Naval Warfare A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). 3rd ed. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1986.
Thucydides. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press, 1996.
Xenophon, John Marincola, and Robert B. Strassler. The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika: A New Translation. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.

Sicily Anatolia/Asia Minor during the Decelean War

Sicily The Hellespont

Sicily The Battle of Cynossema

Sicily Cyzicus

Sicily Notium

Sicily Lesbos and the Arginusae Islands

Sicily The Arginusae Islands

Sicily The Battle of Arginusae: Initial fleet dispositions and approach

Sicily The Battle of Arginusae: Contact

Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Book 13.
John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009.
Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005.
Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003 (a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy of which to two previous books are the first volumes).
Lawrence A. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
William Ledyard Rodgers. Greek and Roman Naval Warfare A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). 3rd ed. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1986.
Thucydides. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press, 1996.