How To Use Trireme In A Sentence
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The force sent to Sicily consisted of 134 triremes and 27,000 men, the largest Athens had ever fielded.
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Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites.
Fortune's Favorites
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Ships of War, "round" and "long"; trireme; penteconter; liburna; galley; dromon; galleas; junk; Viking craft; galleon; two and three-deckers; steam; submarine; destroyer; battle cruiser; dreadnought
A History of Sea Power
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The word trireme comes from three and "remus," meaning oar.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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The best-known type of Greek galley was the TRIREME, with three banks of oars; a famous trireme battle took place between the Greek and Persian fleets at SALAMIS in 480 BC.
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In fact, the name trireme was used loosely for all ships of war whether they had two banks of oars or three.
A History of Sea Power
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For him a trireme is a most marvelous and magnificent sight.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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The agreement is to last until the Lacedaemonian ambassadors return from Athens, and the Athenians are to convey them thither and bring them back in a trireme.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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As the Greek name implies, the trireme had three rows of rowers on each side, developed from earlier Greek and Phoenician biremes.
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With the addition of the trireme from Tenos, they represented twenty-three city-states, from Athens, which had 180 triremes at Salamis, to Seriphos, which provided a penteconter.
The Battle of Salamis
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The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme.
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I remember reading a book called ‘When China Ruled The Seas’ and I think boats like triremes and biremes only came about in China after the western counterparts in the med.
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Leucas, for instance, sent only three triremes; Cythnos sent only a trireme and a penteconter; while Melos, Siphnos and Seriphos sent only penteconters—two from Melos, one each from Siphnos and Seriphos.
The Battle of Salamis
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For the countrymen of Phormio had now reverted to the primitive conditions of naval warfare, in which the trireme was a mere vehicle for carrying troops, and not, as in the days of that great captain, the chief weapon of offence.
Stories from Thucydides
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Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson A group of New Yorkers is trying to restore a full-scale model of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor on July 4 next year.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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Monoremes contained one bank of oars; biremes, two banks; triremes, three; quadriremes, four; quinqueremes, five; and so on.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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At the time of the Persian war the trireme was the standard type of warship, as it had been for the hundred years before, and continued to be during the hundred years that followed.
A History of Sea Power
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To increase the driving force and the speed, they added a second and then a third bank of oars, thus producing the "bireme" and the "trireme.
A History of Sea Power
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A New York-based non-profit is trying to restore a full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor.
Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson
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Gallus, notwithstanding, built not less than eighty biremes and triremes and galleys.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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Pompey’s house on the Esquiline had been decorated with the captured beaks of fifty pirate triremes and was nowadays known as the domus rostra—a shrine to his admirers all across Italy.
Imperium
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Two years later Darius dispatched a new battle fleet of 600 triremes .
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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These new biremes were cheaper than the trireme, and required only about 100 rowers.
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The captain of the trireme, the trierarch, was not a specialist, but a wealthy citizen who had volunteered or been appointed to take up this prestigious position.
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Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
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First, a trireme from the Greek island of Samothrace, fighting for Persia, rammed an Athenian trireme.
The Battle of Salamis
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Both storms and calms at sea are said to be dangerous, and they chanced on this occasion to come very near destruction, and miraculously escaped, for in a calm off the Aeolian Islands they were assailed by Liparian triremes, who took them for pirates.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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His mention at the bottom of page 19 of sailors immediately made me think of the degree of specialization in an 18th or 19th century man-of-war, compared to the very little division of labor in, for example, a trireme or a proa.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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In 483 B.C., the Athenian statesman Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to build a navy of one hundred triremes.
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In this spectacle thirty beaked ships, triremes or biremes, and a large number of smaller vessels met in conflict.
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I suppose 300-style triremes would be cool, but from a Hollywood point of view, it'd move focus from the proven success of the Spartans, so we instead have to talk about Plataea, which is more of a mop up battle against a demoralized, poorly supplied Persian army.
300 Prequel/Sequel to be The Battle of Plataea? | /Film
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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One of the eye-catching exhibits from the controversial exhibition, a replica ancient Greek trireme - a warship powered by three rows of oarsmen - has now found a new home port.
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The foreship was now in the hands of the Tarentines, and the Romans in a compact body were with difficulty defending the hinder part of the vessel, when another of the hostile triremes suddenly appeared astern.
The History of Rome, Vol. IV
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The nominal, and sometimes actual, commander of the trireme is her trierarch; but obviously a cultivated old gentleman like Eustathius is no man to manage the ship in a sea fight.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
