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| ARTICLES RELATED TO 595 BC | | | |  595 BC: Encyclopedia II - Trireme - Construction and capabilitiesNaval combat, during the ascendancy of the trireme, took place mainly by ramming enemy vessels, which would then become unmanoeuverable and subject to capture. In order for this to work well, the boats need to be both fast and maneuverable, which means they ought to have a large number of rowers but still remain as thin and short as possible. Earlier on longboats of increasing length were employed, culminating in the pentekonter, about 35 m long, with 25 oars on each side, which was about the practical size limit for that design. Triremes were a wa ...
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| | | | 595 BC: Encyclopedia II - Trireme - Development During the Hellenistic period, the trireme was largely supplanted by larger galleys, especially the quinquereme. The numbers did not refer to additional banks of oars, but to the number of rowers per vertical section, with multiple men on an oar. This change was accompanied by an increased reliance on tactics like boarding and using warships as platforms for artillery.
Triremes and smaller vessels continued to be employed, however. Only the poorest states would use them as the core of their navy, but lightened versions were often used ...
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| | | | 595 BC: Encyclopedia II - Trireme - Tactics Fleets of triremes employed a variety of tactics. The periplous (Gk., "sailing around") involved outflanking or encircling the enemy so as to attack them in the vulnerable rear; the diekplous (Gk., "Sailing out through") involved a concentrated charge so as to break a hole in the enemy line, allowing galleys to break through and attack the line from behind; and the kuklos (Gk., "circle") was a defensive circle employed against these tactics. In all of these maneuvers, the ability to accelerate faster, row faster, and turn more sharply t ...
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| | | | 595 BC: Encyclopedia II - Trireme - Origin The date of the introduction of the trireme is uncertain, not only because of ambiguities in the few scattered mentions of triremes by ancient Greek writers, such as Herodotus and Thucydides, but also because the evolutionary development of the ship is not well understood.
According to Thucydides, the trireme was introduced by Ameinocles of Corinth in the late 8th century BC. However, we also know that triremes were not truly effectively used in naval combat until about 525 BC, when according to Herodotus, the ruler Polycrates of Samo ...
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