Starr Chester G. The Roman Imperial Navy: 31 B.C. - C.E. 324

Cornell University Press, 1941. — 245 p.This is a solid (dated) and somewhat general treatment of the classical Roman Imperial Navy. The book concentrates mainly on personnel issues, and not so much on naval architecture. Starr compared the recruitment, pay and benefits of sailors and marines, with the legions, and discussed how the navy was based and why. He made good use of limited source material, which was primarily inscriptions and some papyri. Since he was limited by his sources, the bulk of his analysis concentrated on the early imperial period until the late 2nd/early 3rd century CE. The bibliography is fairly comprehensive, for the early time when the book was published.