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Perseus: Image: Part of the Hull

Part of the Hull of an Homeric Ship. [a, meso/dmh, mast-box; b, beams parallel to c, the gunwale; d, klhi_des, rowlocks; e, bed of the oar; f, zu/ga, thwarts (should cross the hold); g, qrh_nus, braces for the feet; h, i)/kria, ribs; i, tro/pis, keel; k, a(rmoniai/, slabs sustaining the floor; l, e)/dafos, floor; m, keelson.]...

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Perseus Image: Merchant and War Ships

Merchant and War ships as depicted in ancient pottery. Photograph courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London, March 1990 (Maria Daniels)...

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The Trireme

How was a trireme built? By E.J. de Meester. For many centuries people have speculated about the way the warships of the ancient Greeks and Romans were built. Most controversial is the trireme (Greek trièrès, Latin triremis) in which three rowers sat next to each other on each side (six in a row in total). Two attempts have been made to build a f...

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Olympias Museum

The museum of Ancient Greek Trireme "Olympias" (Replica)...

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Ancient Greek Ships - Part 2

Stories: In his time, as Hesiod says, """Work was a shame to none," nor was any distinction made with respect to trade, but merchandise was a noble calling, which brought home the good things which the barbarous nations enjoyed, was the occasion of friendship with their kings, and a great source of experience. Some merchants have built great cities...

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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 Merchant Ship 300 B.C.

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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)

The Trireme Olympias is a replica of an ancient warship of the 5th century BC that served in the Hellenic Navy. This reconstruction was based on historical and archaeological evidence, aiming to revive the experience of rowing a trireme, the dominant warship of the Mediterranean at that time. Olympias was built in the 1980s by skilled craftsmen an...

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