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The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship

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In a while before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, Olympias, the first edition of The Athenian Trireme used to be published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental trials have been conducted at the ship under oar and sail, and the lessons learned have been supplemented by new archaeological discoveries and by historical, scientific and physiological research during the last fifteen years. For this second edition, the text has been recast and plenty of substantive changes have been made. As well as, there may be an entirely new chapter that describes the rigors of Olympias in detail, reports the performance figures, and outlines the changes desirable in any second reconstruction. There are nineteen new illustrations, including eleven photographs of Olympias at sea demonstrating features of the design which may be represented only by drawings within the first edition.

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