The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek WarshipShortly before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, Olympias, the first edition of The Athenian Trireme was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the lessons learned have been supplemented by new archaeological discoveries and by historical, scientific and physiological research over the past fifteen years. For this second edition, the text has been recast and a number of substantive changes have been made. In addition, there is an entirely new chapter that describes the trials of Olympias in detail, reports the performance figures, and outlines the changes desirable in any second reconstruction. There are nineteen new illustrations, including eleven photographs of Olympias at sea demonstrating features of the design that could be represented only by drawings in the first edition. |
Contents
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 1 |
EVOLUTION AND SUPERSESSION OF THE TRIERES | 25 |
THE SALAMIS CAMPAIGN | 50 |
SYBOTA AND THE GULF OF CORINTH | 62 |
CYNOSSEMA CYZICUS AND ARGINUSAE | 80 |
NAVAL MOVEMENTS | 94 |
THE MEN | 107 |
THE SHIPS I | 127 |
THE RECONSTRUCTION FUNDAMENTALS OF DESIGN | 191 |
THE RECONSTRUCTION MAIN FEATURES | 207 |
THE ATHENIAN TRIREME RECONSTRUCTED SEA TRIALS OF OLYMPIAS | 231 |
Fast triereis | 276 |
The Lenormant Relief in projection | 280 |
GLOSSARY | 284 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 295 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aeschylus Alcibiades ancient Artemisium Athenian Athenian ships Athens Attic black-figure battle beam blades built Callicratidas century BC command Corcyra Corcyraeans Corinth Corinthians crew cubit deck Drawing by JFC enemy epibatai evidence fast fifth century fighting files of oarsmen force fourth century Greek gulf of Corinth Hellenic Navy Hellespont helmsman Herodotus hoplites hull hyperesia hypozōmata keel knots length Lenormant Relief levels of oars line abreast longships manoeuvre mast Mediterranean Mindarus moved Museum Naupactus naval inventories oarcrew oared ships oared warship oarports oars oarsystem Olympias outrigger Peloponnese Peloponnesian pentecontor Persian Persian fleet Phoenician Phormio Phormio's Photo Piraeus planks pulled reconstructed ship rigging ropes rowers rowing master rudders sail Salamis sea miles sea trials Sestus ship-sheds ship's showing side Spartan speed squadron stern stroke Sybota tactical tenons thalamian Themistocles tholepins tholes thranite three levels Thuc Thucydides timbers tion topwale trierarch triereis trieres trireme voyage waterline zygian