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170 rowers crammed into a wooden battering ram powered entirely by leg day.
means An ancient Greek or Roman warship powered by three banked tiers of oars, built sleek and fast to ram enemy vessels with its bronze-tipped bow.
from From the Latin triremis — tri- 'three' plus remus 'oar' — naming the ship by its three rows of rowers. Remus comes from a Proto-Indo-European root for rowing that also gives us 'row' and 'rudder.' The Greeks called the same vessel triērēs, 'three-fitted,' and dominated the Mediterranean with it long before Rome borrowed the design and the word alike.
- crew size
- About 170 rowers in three tiered banks
- main weapon
- The bronze ram, the ship itself was the missile
- top speed
- Sprinted near 10 knots in ramming attacks
- no sleeping
- Too cramped to sleep aboard, beached nightly
- salamis decider
- Won Greece's freedom against Persia in 480 BC
athenian fleet salamis — 480 bc naval battle where greek triremes defeated persian fleet with superior tactics
olympias reconstruction — 1987 replica built in athens proving ancient greek trireme design and performance theories
aegean bronze age wrecks — underwater archaeology sites like uluburun showing trireme-era mediterranean naval warfare