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    A trireme (/ˈtraɪriːm/ TRY-reem; derived from Latin: trirēmis "with three banks of oars"; cf. Greek triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel...
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    Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the...
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  • Trireme Partners LLP was a US limited partnership venture capital company that invested in technology, goods, and services related to Homeland Security...
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    types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships became increasingly large and heavy...
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    powered by oarsmen, sometimes stacked in multiple levels such as biremes or triremes, and many of which also had sails. Initial efforts of the Romans to construct...
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    arranged in 15–30 pairs, from monoremes with a single line of oars to triremes with three lines of oars in a tiered arrangement. Occasionally, much larger...
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    and small pleasure crafts called pamphyles. The next development, the trireme, keeping the length of the bireme, added a tier to the height, the rowers...
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    of files. Polyremes comprise the trireme (3 files), quadrireme, quinquereme, hexareme or sexireme (probably a trireme with two rowers per oar), septireme...
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  • τριήραρχος, romanized: triērarchos) was the title of officers who commanded a trireme (triēres) in the classical Greek world. In Classical Athens, the title...
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    guidance of the Athenian politician Themistocles, to build a massive fleet of triremes that would be necessary for the Greeks to fight the Persians. However,...
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    English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. Born in 1913, Morrison was professor of Greek...
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  • Quadrireme Quinquereme Rocket vessel Schooner Ship of the line Sloop-of-war Trireme Xebec Aircraft carrier Anti-submarine warfare carrier Helicopter carrier...
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    yachts and superyachts Sail training and sailing ships Galleys - biremes, triremes and quinquiremes Recreational boats and craft – rowed, masted and motorised...
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  • Triremes, besides the transport of troops and supplies, would be the advantages of ramming tactics. Developments and innovations of the Greek Trireme...
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    "Πολεμικό Ναυτικό - Επίσημη Ιστοσελίδα - Trireme OLYMPIAS". www.hellenicnavy.gr. Retrieved 2022-06-13. "The Trireme Olympias and the Hellenic Maritime Museum...
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    utilized to fund the construction of 200 triremes; the Athenian fleet was transferred to Piraeus, and the triremes were built in its shipyards. The Athenian...
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  • Model of Ancient Greek Trireme in Athens, Greece...
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    reconstructions of penteconters, as well as other ancient ship designs such as triremes, crewed by modern untrained amateurs, attained that top speed fairly easily...
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  • to: Paralus (place), a former place in Egypt Paralus (ship), an Athenian trireme Paralus, a son of Pericles, see Paralus and Xanthippus fighting words This...
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  • of arms, changed over the years, has always been characterised by the trireme ship and island of Tavolara, part of the municipality of Olbia in the Gallura...
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    (Thales of Miletos) and Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient trireme naval ship. Demetrius of Phalerum, orator Diogenes Laërtius said that Musaeus...
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    Navis lusoria Obelisk ship Outriggers Polyremes Bireme Oared warships Trireme Quadrireme Quinquereme Hexareme Tessarakonteres Raft Reed boat Sailing...
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  • talents of silver (roughly 390 kg). This sum could have paid the wages of a trireme crew for 15 months, or bought 540 metric tons of wheat, enough to feed...
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    Greece and the Ancient Rome, warships were always galleys (such as biremes, triremes and quinqueremes): long, narrow vessels powered by banks of oarsmen and...
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  • boat Tour boat Towboat Trabaccolo Trailer sailor Train ferry Trimaran Trireme Trawler (fishing) Trawler (naval) Trawler (recreational) Trow Tugboat Top...
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    century BC Greek alphabet, the first alphabet with vowels. 7th century BC Trireme 6th century BC paved trackway Pythagorean theorem Monotheism 5th century...
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    Roman trireme on a mosaic in the Bardo Museum, Tunisia...
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    Balangay Boita Borobudur ship Dhow Fire ship Galley Penteconter Bireme Trireme Quadriremes Tessarakonteres Dromon Junk K'un-lun po Lepa Mtepe Uru Post-classical...
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    again. According to Herodotus, Darius's canal was wide enough that two triremes could pass each other with oars extended, and required four days to traverse...
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    Western populations. It included: Construction of 1,000 ships larger than triremes, along with harbours and a road running along the African coast all the...
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