#trireme

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

So was anyone gonna tell me the Greek navy still has a fully functional trireme?

Her name is Olympias! She was built in 1987 and can sail up to 9 knots (17 km) per hour!

Olympias weighs 47 tonnes, but is remarkably agile, able to make a 180 degree turn within one minute. Everything but the bracing ropes was constructed of the same materials as in ancient Greece. (They used steel instead of hemp rope for cost reasons.)

Experiments with Olympias have helped us understand the capabilities of warships from ancient Greek and Roman times. Triremes like her were built for speed, maneuverability, and aggressive ramming. (Her beak alone weighs 200 kg.) It appears that many of the seamanship feats described by Thucydides were indeed possible!

Olympias is now an exhibit at Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece. She's usually dry docked these days, but I've found a couple videos of her at sea!

Edit: Initially got her top speed wrong, sorry. It is now corrected!

[ltwilliammowett]

The modern replica of a 4th Century BC Athenian Trireme. This beauty has been named the "Olympias" and is actually a commissioned Greek naval vessel.

[katarinanavane]

A few more Greek vases painted onto rocks with posca markers. Hand for scale.

If you like these and want to see my others (there are lots), search my blog for "Greek" (or other relevant tags but I'm not sure I got them all under any in particular). Also there are a few in my Etsy (link in bio).

[arconinternet]

RAM! (DOS, The Avalon Hill Game Company, 1985)

You can play it in your browser here.

[victusinveritas]

Greek trireme Olympias rowing past HMS Belfast

[grayrazor]

Episode 4 of the Shogun remake is a good showcase for a specific development in the history of warfare. When galleons, made to survive the rougher conditions of the Atlantic, went up against galleys and small boats made for seas, the ancient tactics of boarding and fighting hand-to hand didn’t work anymore because they were just too tall.

There’s one story of a galleon sailing into the Mediterranean and getting attacked by quinqueremes and galleasses, and when one tried to ram her like it was the Peloponnesian or Punic Wars the galley just crushed herself against the side of the galleon, doing no damage.

[lifeof-maria]

Greece. A country full of history it is.

[pimsri]

Lesbian trireme!!!!

[emperornorton47]

[whencyclopedfr]

Lysandre

Lysandre (m. 395 av. J.-C.) était un homme d'État et un général spartiate, célèbre pour sa victoire sur la marine athénienne lors de la bataille d'Aigos Potamos en 405 av. J.-C., qui finit par remporter la guerre du Péloponnèse. Lysandre se fit une réputation pour sa personnalité enflammée, ses stratégies audacieuses et le traitement impitoyable qu'il réservait aux prisonniers et aux cités soumises. Les politiques sévères menées par le Spartiate dans l'ensemble de la Grèce à la suite de la guerre du Péloponnèse finirent par causer sa perte. Impopulaire dans son pays et dans toute la Grèce, il fut tué par une force thébaine en 395 avant notre ère, au cours de la première année des guerres de Corinthe. Lysandre est le sujet de l'une des biographies des Vies de Plutarque.

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[lokkie83]

Just a couple of pics of the awesome Trireme we found in Piraeus :)

[yourfavepokemontype]

A Trireme is a water/grass type, and its evolution, a Quadreme, is a water/fighting type

Trireme are Water/Grass Types!

Quadreme are Water/Fighting Types!

[tyrannoninja]

It is early in the summer of 200 BC, and a Carthaginian expedition has finished crossing the mighty Atlantic Ocean and discovered an entire new continent, which they name Atlantis after the mythical sunken landmass. Among the colonists are our protagonists Isceradin, Arishat, and their little daughter Nikkal, all of whom are positioned closest to the front of the galley’s bow here.

This is an illustration I did for my upcoming novella Carthage Atlantica, an alternate-history tale about ancient Carthaginians from North Africa settling in North America. The question remains, how will these colonists fare in a new world already populated by various indigenous peoples, and will their own leadership’s ambitions get the better of them?

[whencyclopedes]

Guerra naval cartaginense

Los cartagineses eran famosos en la antigüedad por sus habilidades marineras y innovativo diseño de barcos. El imperio que protegía su armada se extendía desde Sicilia hasta la costa atlántica de África. Capaz de igualar a los tiranos de Sicilia y los reinos helenísticos, el dominio de los mares de Cartago sería desafiado y finalmente reemplazado por los romanos, quienes fueron capaces de crear una armada que llegó a ser tan exitosa como su ejército terrestre.

Sigue leyendo...

[kyokasuiigetsu]

Looking at old ships excites me

[tenth-sentence]

"(...) Imagine the feelings of say a commander of a fine – what d'ye call 'em? – trireme in the Mediterranean, ordered suddenly to the north; run overland across the Gauls in a hurry; put in charge of one of these craft the legionaries – a wonderful lot of handy men they must have been too – used to build, apparently by the hundred in a month or two, if we may believe what we read. (...)"

"Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad