Trireme Olympias

Trireme Olympias - The Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship
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[YiannisThiakos]

@tedmagnusson I think as long as the music held playing.

[dbfordateam]

they were supposed to be fast so they could pick up speed and ram other ships

[jebsievers]

Great work. How fast do they get? B/c weren't they designed for ramming other ships?

[tedmagnusson]

Talk about syncopated rhythmn. How long did the ancients keep this up?

[aminoacid1648856]

Awesome :D

[Hypnotized81]

@DissorderedArray

It turns out you are correct. I knew about the greeks already but not about the romans. I did a little more research after you comment. thx

[DissorderedArray]

@Hypnotized81 Actually neither the Greeks nor the Romans used slaves, except when manpower was short, and even then it was common practice to free the slaves on commencing service as an incentive to row well. Since triremes had to beach each night, its likely that desertion would have made slaves more expensive than freedmen due to replacement costs. And as a rower myself, I can attest that a dedicated free rower would be vastly preferable to an unskilled slave, even in polyremes.

[Hypnotized81]

@GIadiator

Actually the romans did use slaves in their ships. It was the greeks that used free citizens

[killallianceftw]

Good excercise.

[GIadiator]

@einherje71

Slaves weren't usually used on galleys. The romans preferred (free) sailors to operate on their ships. Slaves were only used when there was a lack of men or in emergency situations.

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