The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece's Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity

“Forward, sons of the Greeks,

Liberate the fatherland,

Liberate your children, your women,

The altars of the gods of your fathers,

And the graves of your ancestors:

Now is the fight for everything.” - The Greek battle hymn sung before the Battle of Salamis according to Aeschylus

Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly proud of its past. For a period of roughly three centuries, the polis of Athens stood, i...