Ameinocles

Ameinocles in Wikipedia

Ameinocles (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινοκλῆς, fl. 8th century BC) was a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Samos about 704 BC, and built four ships for the Samians.[1] Pliny the Elder says that Thucydides men­tioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme;[2] but this is a mistake, for Thucydides merely states that triremes were first built at Corinth ...

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