With a bronze battering ram attached to its prow and a crew of nearly 200 oarsmen, the trireme helped turn Athens into a naval superpower. Harder than it looksOlympias, a reproduction of an ancient ...

The guided missiles of their day, triremes were the key to Athens' greatness in the 5th century BC. According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed the ...

ATHENS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Sailing with an ancient Athenian wooden trireme was a dream to come true for most of the visitors who boarded on the "Olympias" trireme on Wednesday afternoon at the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Trireme Commander Greek and Persian trireme simulator, from maneuvering a single trireme through to the Battle of Salamis (480BC). The simulation accurately ...

AN INCREDIBLE simulation of ancient Athens shows the bustling Greek capital as it looked 3,000 years ago. Created by a 3D artist, the video gives a glimpse of the magnificent city at the height of its ...

By Hannah Furness 19 April 2012 • 9:54am The plan would have seen 170 rowers manning an ornate trireme Credit: Photo: Alamy Officials are concerned the spectacle of the barge, which would have carried ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Editorial Committee of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology welcomes all submissions dealing with any aspects of the ...

Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA) is the official research publication of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS). The SCS is a learned society of scholars of the culture ...