This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean. With a bronze battering ram attached to its prow and a crew of nearly 200 oarsmen, the trireme helped turn Athens into a naval superpower.

From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

Greek and Persian trireme simulator, from maneuvering a single trireme through to the Battle of Salamis (480BC). The simulation accurately recreates the performance of ancient triremes, ...

The Trireme. The guided missiles of their day, triremes were the key to Athens' greatness in the 5th century BC. According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who ...

Artist’s depiction of a 5th-century B.C. Greek trireme, with a three-bladed naval ram mounted on the bow. The trireme predated the age of gunpowder , so it relied on a different kind of energy ...

The largest Greek warships had three banks of oars and were called triremes. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar. Fixed to the front of the trireme was a sharp metal ram.

Visitors board Olympias, a replica of an ancient Greek trireme, to sail in the waters of the Saronic Gulf off Athens' southern coast, on July 12, 2017. Following the successful trips of the trireme in ...

'Olympias' is an experimental reconstruction of the trireme, the sleek ancient Greek warship that halted a Persian invasion of Europe and ruled the Mediterranean for centuries ...

John Coates, who died on July 10 aged 88, had retired as chief naval architect at the Ministry of Defence when he took a central role in the building of a Greek trireme, the first, fastest and ...

Model of a Greek trireme. In battle she would dispense with masts and sails. Credit: MatthiasKabel / Wikimedia Commons Twenty-four percent of the names were those of gods and heroes such as Athena, ...