This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates. Ancient World: 315 BC–197 AD Middle Ages: 400–1585 Rise of the English Sea Dogs and Dutch Corsairs: 1560–1650 Age of the Buccaneers: 1650–1690 Golden Age of Piracy: 1690–1730 Post Golden Age: pirates, privateers, smugglers, and river pirates: 1730–1885 Renegades of the West Indies: 1820–1830 Piracy in East and Southeast Asia: 1400–1860 Blackbirders, Shanghaiers, Crimps and African Slave Traders: 1860–1900 Piracy from the 20th–21st century: 1901– References Further reading Ancient World Abulafia, D., The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (2019) Bulwer, Edward Lytton. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People. New York: Harper & brothers Publishers, 1852. Emanuel, J.P., Black Ships and Sea Raiders: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus' Second Cretan Lie (2017) Fleming, R., Britain after Rome. The Fall and Rise 400 to 1070 (2010) Fouracre, P (ed)., The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume I c. 500–c. 700; Hamerow, H., The earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms; Lebecq, S., The northern Seas (fifth to eighth centuries) (2005) Haywood, J., Dark Age Naval Power. A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity (1999) Livy, History of Rome, Rev. Canon Roberts (translator), Ernest Rhys (Ed.); (1905) London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. Pearson, A.F., Barbarian Piracy and the Saxon Shore; A reappraisal (2005) Plutarch, "Aratus" in Plutarch's Lives, Arthur Hugh Clough (editor), John Dryden (translator). Two volumes. Modern Library; Modern Library Paperback Ed edition (2001). Downloadable version at Project Gutenberg. Vol. 2: . Polybius, Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator); London, New York. Macmillan (1889); Reprint Bloomington (1962). Pritchett, William Kendrick. The Greek State at War. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. Rawlinson, George; Benjamin Jowett, Henry Graham Dakyns and Edward James Chinnock. Greek Historians: The Complete and Unabridged Historical Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Arrian. New York: Random House Incorporated, 1942. Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. Shaw, Philip. The Sublime. New York: Routledge, 2006. Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd.