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Trieres - Greek Naval Warfare c.400BC.

Links:

  • Photos of the "Olympias" - a fully functional modern reconstruction of a Greek Trieres.
  • The Trireme Trust http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/trireme/. This is the organisation who were formed to create the Olympias - and where the crew who manned her during actual sea trials can be found. There are numerous photos, technical data and a great bibliography there.
  • The Book that started it all: "The Athenian Trireme" The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship, 2nd Edition, J. S. Morrison, J. F. Coates, N. B. Rankov. This book contains a wealth of detail about the historical trireme battles, the epic journeys and (most valuable of all) complete construction details and sea-trial performance data for the Olympias.
  • Steve Baker's home page http://www.sjbaker.org
  • Other projects by Steve:
    http://plib.sf.net -- The PLIB library.
    http://freeglut.sf.net -- An OpenSourced GLUT Clone.
    http://freediag.sf.net -- Car Diagnostics for Linux.
    http://tuxkart.sf.net -- TuxKart, gokart racing game.
    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net -- Tux - A Quest for Herring, the first ever 3D game for Linux.
    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net -- Tux - A Quest for Herring, the first ever 3D game for Linux.