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The hull of the Olympias, a full-scale reconstruction of an ancient Greek trireme warship. The principal strategy in battle of the trireme was to sink or damage the oars of an enemy vessel using the bronze ram fixed to the ship's prow. Triremes were used throughout antiquity and used most famously in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE when the allied Greek fleet defeated that of Persian king Xerxes.
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Original image by Magnus Manske. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 05 May 2013 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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Manske, M. (2013, May 05). Trireme Hull with Bronze Ram. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/1184/
Manske, Magnus. "Trireme Hull with Bronze Ram." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified May 05, 2013. https://www.ancient.eu/image/1184/.
Manske, Magnus. "Trireme Hull with Bronze Ram." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 05 May 2013. Web. 03 Mar 2021.
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