Harder than it looksOlympias, a reproduction of an ancient trireme ... Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle. PrototypeA krater ...

The Olympias, a meticulously reconstructed ancient Athenian trireme, stands as a testament to both historical scholarship ...

A new study finds that ancient Greek ship names carried symbolic meanings that shaped crew morale and identity in Athens’ ...

Those dates are significant because it likely means they housed triremes that took part in the Battle of Salamis in 480, a key event in Greek history. Diver excavating ship shed remains in ...

The ships, named "triremes" for their three rows of oars ... It investigated two ancient Greek harbor areas — Zea and Mounichia — in the Piraeus port city, uncovering and documenting the ...

In ancient times ... drop his shield and run away. Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest warships had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 ...

In ancient times ... it before going into battle. Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest Greek warships had three banks of oars and were called triremes. A trireme needed 170 ...

Says Dr Rossiter: “Ancient Athens had up to 200 triremes at any one time, and with 170 rowers in each ship, the rowers were clearly not a small elite. Yet this large group, it seems, would match ...

Xerxes, the Persian King, had succeeded in occupying much of Greece. It had a fleet of more than 800 powerful galleys while the Greeks only had about 370 warships, known as triremes. However ...