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Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Lists of Greek ships include: List of Greece-flagged cargo ...
Most of the warships of the era were distinguished by their names, which were compounds of a number and a suffix. Thus the English term quinquereme derives from Latin quīnquerēmis and has the Greek equivalent πεντήρης (pentḗrēs). Both are compounds featuring a prefix meaning "five": Latin quīnque, ancient Greek πέντε (pénte).
The Greek trireme was the most common ship of the ancient Mediterranean world, employing the propulsion power of oarsmen. Mediterranean peoples developed lighthouse technology and built large fire-based lighthouses, most notably the Lighthouse of Alexandria , built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in ...
For the philosophical question of the ship's identity, see Ship of Theseus.) After the reforms of Cleisthenes, a ship was named for each of the ten tribes that political leader had created; these ships may also have been sacred ships. [4] Another known sacred ship was the Theoris (θεωρίς), a trireme kept for sacred embassies. [5]
Syracusia (Greek: Συρακουσία, syrakousía, literally "of Syracuse") was an ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity. [1] She was reportedly too big for any port in Sicily, and thus only sailed once from Syracuse in Sicily to Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt , whereupon she was ...
Trade ship Ancient Rome France : 102 ft (31 m) Marseille 5: 1st–2nd century AD [38] [39] Coastal working boat Ancient Rome France (Marseille) 52.4 ft (16.0 m) Marseille 6: 1st–2nd century AD [40] [41] Coastal working boat Ancient Rome France (Marseille) 49.2 ft (15.0 m) Pommeroeul 1: 1st–2nd century AD [42] [43] Barge: Ancient Rome Belgium