From Caligula to the Nazis: The Nemi Ships in Diana's Sanctuary - Hardcover

by John M. McManamon (Author)

The saga of Caligula's barges sunk in Lake Nemi south of Rome--how the huge vessels came to be there in the first place; why they became a cause célèbre for Mussolini's
Fascist regime; how they were, after multiple attempts, recovered from the lake bed; and why they were shortly thereafter destroyed--is, in the words of author John McManamon, a good story that is worth telling: "It has memorable characters, twists and turns in the plot, no lack of conflict and tension, and a dramatic ending where something clearly went wrong."

Author Biography

JOHN M. MCMANAMON, S. J., is the author of Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water and "Neither Letters Nor Swimming" The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving. He is emeritus professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University.