Lionel Casson

Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated "underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.C.) to the heyday of the Byzantine fleets. Originally published in 1971, the book provides a comprehensive insight into the development of ancient maritime practices. The Princeton Legacy Library uses...

This work tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a tour from the royal libraries of the Ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first Christian monastic libraries. He explains what...