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 ...

When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis.

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it ... had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar.

According to Greek Travel Pages ... The exhibition's centerpiece will be a replica of an ancient trireme, built at a 1:2 ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it ... had three banks of oars and were called ‘triremes’. A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar.