Athenian triremes were the result of a complex society, a well-organized political system, and the economic or physical contributions of a large portion of the population, the researchers say. A ...

Beyond their bronze rams and powerful oars, the formidable warships, the triremes, of ancient Athens harbored a secret weapon ...

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Athenian Trireme” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 48 No. 22 (June 1883), p. 338 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06021883-338 ...

Ancient civilizations, including Athens, Carthage, Egypt, Macedonia, Rhodes, and Rome, all used the trireme until about 500 A.D.—at least those that lasted that long.

The trireme used in Dr Rossiter's research, Olympias, was built in the 1980s and was used to carry the Olympic flame to Piraeus, the port near Athens, at the start of the last Olympic Games.

Metics were a class of free non-citizens, often employed on more menial, but nevertheless vital, tasks - including trireme building, rowing and maintenance. Metics were usually Greeks from other ...

The Persian Empire sailed to Greece with more than 1,200 trireme warships, but storms and other disasters whittled their number down to little more than 700 ships before they entered the straits ...

Rowers in a Greek trireme are carved on a monument dating to close to the time of the battle of Arginusae. Athens, Athens, Acropolis Museum no. 1339/Mark Munn, CC BY-ND ...