Ancient Roman lessons on shipping and logistics

摘要

The Ancient Romans were fiercely proud of the network of roads they built across their empire, all of which, as we know, led to Rome. Many of them, from Britain’s Fosse Way, to Greece’s Via Egnatia and Italy’s Appian Way, are now covered, or paralleled, by modern incarnations. Others, in countries as far apart from each other as Algeria, Syria and Germany, carry on clinging to the surface of the earth. Then there were the maritime routes that served Rome.