As for the marine expeditions led in the olden days by Pompei to safeguard the supply of wheat to the port of Ostia, neighbour of Rome, they do not fail to remind one of the suggestion of combined patrols in Southeast Asia, made in Tokyo in the spring of 2000. Minos, the legendary king of Crete, thus tried to pass a legislation against the pirates of the Mediterranean 23. At the same time, ancient civilisation was marked by the first counteroffensives by the State which have, subsequently, continued to inspire leaders. Already in the Iliad (Volumes III and XIV) and the Odyssey (Volumes IX and XIX), in The Histories (Volume I) or also in History of the Peloponnesian War (Volume I), Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides spoke of piracy which was respected and embodied by heroes such as Ulysses. 22 David-Anthony Delavoet, “La Piraterie, un fléau actuel”, Bulletin d’études de la marine, n o 8, July (.)ģ Piracy is however all the more interesting as it is “an adventure of all eternity 21 ”.21 In the words of Gérard Jaeger (dir.), Vues sur la piraterie, Tallandier, Paris, 1992 see especiall (.).
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