According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed the trireme, possibly as early as the 7th century BC. (1.12.4 - 13.2) They in turn based their ...

Pursued by a trireme she calmly and expertly rammed a friendly ship blocking her exit, and made her escape. Believing her to be an ally, the trireme dropped its pursuit, while Xerxes, believing ...

The largest warships had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar. It was steered by long oars at the stern or back of the ship.

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B. McPherson (London: Penguin Books, 1968), chap. 13, pp. 183–88. 12. It is easy to imaginswe from the image on the cover of this issue the damage that might be done to a trireme’s oars and oarsmen by ...

Ambrosini, Laura 2010. Sui vasi plastici configurati a prua di nave (trireme) in ceramica argentata e a figure rosse. Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, p. 73. Köhler-Olsen, Julia ...