A trireme (/ˈtraɪriːm/ TRY-reem; derived from Latin: trirēmis, "with three banks of oars"; cf. Ancient Greek: triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an...
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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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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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Ships of ancient Rome (section Trireme)
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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Galley (section Advent of the trireme)
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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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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English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. From Lindfield, Sussex, Morrison was professor...
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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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