Who Invented the Trireme?
According to the Ancient Greek Historian, Thucydides, It Was the Corinthians Who First Developed the Trireme, Possibly as Early as the 7Th Century Bc. (1.12. 4...
According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed the trireme, possibly as early as the 7th century BC. (1.12. 4 - 13.2) They in turn based their design on ships first made by the Phoenicians, a people living on the coast of what is now Lebanon.
How were triremes built?
To build the triremes used wooden pegs and dowels to hold the planks together, loosely at first. when a ship was first launched the wood would absorb enough water to expand the hull and make it watertight. The trireme was developed by the Greeks and Phoenicians around the 8th century BCE.
What came before the trireme?
Before the invention of the trireme the standard warship was a single-banked ship with a crew of 50 rowers (25 a side), called a pentekonter(Pentèkontoros probably introduced by the Phoceans) and also the triakonter (Triakontoros) with 30 rowers.
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