Herodotus recounts the story that Cynaegirus, brother of the playwright Aeschylus, who was also among the fighters, charged into the sea, grabbed one Persian trireme, and started pulling it towards shore.

As a result, Themistocles's motion was carried easily, although only 100 warships of the trireme type were to be built.

A trireme ( derived from Latin: " tres remi :" " three-oar ;", literally " three-oarer ") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley, a Hellenistic-era warship that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.

The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side, and of the bireme (, diērēs ), a warship with two banks of oars, probably of Phoenician origin.

According to Thucydides, the trireme was introduced to Greece by the Corinthians in the late 8th century BC, and the Corinthian Ameinocles built four such ships for the Samians.

In any case, by the early 5th century, the trireme was becoming the dominant warship type of the eastern Mediterranean, with minor differences between the " Greek " and " Phoenician " types, as literary references and depictions of the ships on coins make clear.

The ancient Chinese also built ramming vessels as in the Greco-Roman tradition of the trireme, although oar-steered ships in China lost favor very early on since it was in the 1st century China that the stern-mounted rudder was first developed.

The standard complement of a trireme was 200 men, including 14 marines.

The Athenian trireme fleet needed protection from rot, decay and the teredo, so this new source of tar was valuable to them.

In 478 BC Pausanias was suspected of conspiring with the Persians and was recalled to Sparta, however he was acquitted and then left Sparta of his own accord, taking a trireme from the town of Hermione.

Trierarch (, triērarchos ) was the title of officers who commanded a trireme ( triēres ) in the classical Greek world.

Later, when the praetorian trireme was captured, it was rowed upriver on the Lippe as a gift to Veleda.

First, the Athenian fleet was divided into eight autonomous divisions, each commanded by one of the generals ; second, they arranged their fleet in a double line instead of the traditional single line in order to prevent the Spartans from using the maneuver known as the diekplous, in which a trireme raced into a gap between two enemy ships and then wheeled to strike one of them in the side ; if the Spartans attempted this against a double line, a ship from the second line could move up to attack the Spartan ship.

Knowing that the crew of a Roman trireme was approximately 170 rowers and 50 to 60 soldiers, a simple calculation allows us to see that to achieve the number of 3000 men the vessels of Augustus ' fleet would have to have held more combatants than an actual fleet.

In the great wars of the 5th century BC, such as the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, the trireme was the heaviest type of warship used by the Mediterranean navies.

The trireme ( Greek: triērēs, " three-oared ") was propelled by three banks of oars, with one oarsman each.

Consequently, during the Renaissance and until the 19th century, it came to be believed that the rowing system of the trireme and its descendants was similar to the alla sensile system of the contemporary galleys, where multiple oars were rowed by one oarsman each from the same level.

The most often forwarded argument is one of lack of skilled manpower: the trireme was essentially a ship built for ramming, and successful ramming tactics depended chiefly on the constant maintenance of a highly trained oar crew, something which few states aside from Athens had the funds or the social structure to do.

Polybius is explicit in calling the quinquereme superior as a warship to the old trireme, which was retained in service in significant numbers by many smaller navies.

The Naval ram | ram of Olympias ( trireme ) | Olympias, a reconstruction of an ancient Athens | Athenian trireme.

The use of bombards or cannon as naval armament had a great effect in modifying the construction of the old trireme and Viking type of war vessel.

As the need for large warships disappeared, the design of the trireme, the pinnacle of ancient war ship design, was forgotten.

Roman trireme mosaic from Carthage, Bardo Museum, Tunis.

Fleet of triremes made up of photographs of the modern full-sized replica Olympias ( trireme ) | Olympias.

The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars on each side, manned with one man per oar.

The exact origin of the trireme is uncertain and debated, as our evidence comes from literary sources, depictions in reliefs and pottery fragments, which are open to misinterpretations.

The 2nd century Christian scholar Clement of Alexandria, drawing on earlier works, explicitly attributes the invention of the trireme ( trikrotos naus, " three-tiered ship ") to the Sidonians.

The Lenormant Relief, from the Athenian Acropolis, depicting the rowers of an aphract Athenian trireme, ca.

Found in 1852, it is one of the main pictorial testaments to the layout of the trireme.

A Greek trireme.

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Xenophon evocatively describes Epaminondas's thinking: " led forward his army prow on, like a trireme, believing that if he could strike and cut through anywhere, he would destroy the entire army of his adversaries.

An ancient Greek trireme.

A fast trireme sailed the in less than a day and brought the decision to cancel the massacre.

In the first Greco-Persian War ( 490 BC ), Paros sided with the Persians and sent a trireme to Marathon to support them.

This is seen in the title " Guardian ", denoting the head boy and girl, the adoption of a Greek trireme as the school's emblem, and a routine that could be described as Spartan.

When these relics were brought home on his trireme by Cimon, the Athenians were delighted, and received them with splendid processions and sacrifices, as though Theseus himself were returning to the city.

This suggests that a trireme could probably carry a maximum of 40 – 45 soldiers — triremes seem to have been easily destabilised by extra weight.

When a lady chanced to soil a pair of evening slippers, Brigadier Bauer was dispatched to Paris for replacements.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

Furthermore, it was Abbas Mirza who first dispatched Iranian students to Europe for a western education.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

Paoli was convicted in absentia, a warrant was sent for his arrest ( which could not be served ) and Napoleon was dispatched to Corsica as Inspector-general of Artillery to take the citadel of Ajaccio from the royalists, who had held it since 1789.

All along the way the path was filled with danger, as the Abbasids had dispatched horsemen across the region to try to find the Umayyad prince and kill him.

Yahiya returned to the near shore, and was quickly dispatched by the horsemen.

Bedr was dispatched across the straits to make contact.

The following day, at 01: 00, Marlborough dispatched Cadogan, his Quartermaster-General, with an advanced guard to reconnoitre the same dry ground that Villeroi ’ s army was now heading, country that was well known to the Duke from previous campaigns.

Charlton was handed his debut as England romped home 4 – 0, with the new player gaining even more admirers after scoring a magnificent thumping volley dispatched with authority after a cross by the left winger Tom Finney.

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.

After his acclamation, Maximian was dispatched to fight the rebel Bagaudae in Gaul.

A United Nations ( UN ) commission was dispatched to the former colony in February 1950 in the absence of Allied agreement and in the face of Eritrean demands for self-determination.

He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece, where he successfully reconciled the Christian community there with Paul, its founder.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ), was dispatched to Fiji and met Prime Minister Qarase during a brief stopover on 21 – 22 May, a move that Tavola said was not coincidental.

Lambert, the Cardinal of Ostia was dispatched to convoke a synod at Worms, which began on September 8, 1122.