Limitations. The main avenue of travel and heavy transport in ancient Greece was the sea. This fact was true in all of the Mediterranean lands, but was nowhere more the case than in Greece, where the waters were placid, the harbors plentiful, and the facilities for land transport limited. While overland roads certainly existed in Greece, they were in most cases rudimentary and were unsuitable for the transportation of large cargoes. In later centuries the Romans would earn themselves a reputation for road construction in the Mediterranean, but this art was one in which their Greek predecessors had little to teach them. It was not so much that the Greeks were incapable of competent road building; they could build a sturdy road where there was need for one, and many of the roads they built in the vicinities of cities...