Citizen Sailors in Naval Service

摘要

During the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 BC, Greek historian Xenophon wrote a thought-provoking assessment of the citizen sailors of the Athenian Navy: "It is the ordinary people who man the fleet .... they provide the helmsmen, the boatswains, the junior offi' cers, the look-outs and the shipwrights; it is these people who make the city powerful."