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Pentekoter

Before the invention of the trireme the standard warship was a single-banked ship with a crew of 50 rowers (25 a side), called a pentekonter......

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War Ships of the Greeks

Ancient Ships: The Ship of Antiquity "" War Ships of the Greeks Legend has it, that for ten long years the Greeks laid siege to the ancient city of Troy but could not take it. Then one night they sailed away leaving only a large Wooden Horse. Thinking that the Greeks had given up and returned home the Trojans took what they thought was a large ido...

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Greek Warships - History for Kids

People called the earliest Greek warships pentekontors. Pentekontors were long, narrow ships, designed to go fast so they could overtake other ships and attack them. They had 25 rowers, or oarsmen, on each side. By the 500's BC, in the Archaic period, though, Greek carpenters were building even faster ships. These new ships had more oars, and more ...

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Trireme Olympias of the Hellenic Navy (Replica)

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Greek Literature

The Greek Word - Three Millennia of Greek Literature. Before Plato (12? - 5th c. B.C.) Homer ; Hesiod ; Orphica ; Archilochus ; Sappho ; Alcaeus ; Anaximander ; Xenophanes ; Heraclitus ; Parmenides ; Empedocles ; Anaxagoras Classical Era (5Th - 4Th C. B.C.) Aeschylus ; Sophocles ; Euripides ; Thucydides ; Herodotus ; Aristophanes ; Plato ; Aristo...

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Lives of the Ten Orators

1. Antiphon 2. Andocides 3. Lysias 4. Isocrates 5. Isaeus 6. Aeschines 7. Lycurgus 8. Demosthenes 9. Hyperides 10. Dinarchus; Decrees Proposed to the Athenians. Scanned by Agathon (RSB) from the University of Washington's copy of Plutarch's Lives and Writings, ed. by A.H. Clough and William W. Goodwin, with an introd. by Ralph Waldo Emerson...

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Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Get your OMACL gear and let your love of classical and medieval literature show!...

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The Ancient Greek World

The Ancient Greek World virtual gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology....

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Greek Music and Lyrical Poetry

Greek music and lyrical poetry are inextricably linked. Lyrical poetry was meant to be sung, and music was an essential part of the performance. Greek lyrical poetry covers a wide range of topics, including love, loss, war, and religion. It is often characterized by its emotional intensity and its use of vivid imagery. Some of the most famous Greek...

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The Suda Online Project (SOL).

The Suda On Line project engages the efforts of scholars world-wide in the translation and annotation of a substantial text that is being made available exclusively through the internet. Beginning with the Byzantine encyclopedia known as the Suda, a 10th century CE compilation of material on ancient literature, history, and biography. A massive wor...

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