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The Hellenistic Age

when the references go on for several lines and leaves the reader with no indication as to what precisely the work referred to (often without specific page references) discusses. His abbreviations for ancient works are often peculiar (Xenophon Ana, Aristotle Mete), and transliterations are similarly rebarbative (Ewoia). G. is unduly credulous of ancient sources. He accepts a Persian fleet of 480 B.C. 'encompassing' 241,000 men, in a discussion of the manpower demanded by navies which seems enormously to overstate their needs he reckons that the combined fleets manned in the fifth and fourth centuries amounted to 'a few thousand ships'. He is also too reliant on the generalisations of other scholars for some of his basic points something that emerges particularly in the attempt to introduce a diachronic perspective in the final chapter. But, for all that one could have wished for a little more traditional polish, this is a stimulating work and one which, like that fatter green book, Robert Sallares' The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World, all ancient historians will benefit by reading.