10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTECONTER»
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penteconter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
penteconter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Greek Warfare: From the Battle of Marathon to the Conquests ...
Penteconter The penteconter was the dominant ship in Greek sea warfare before
the invention of the trireme. Invented in the Eastern Mediterranean during the
Greek Archaic period, the penteconter was so named because it was rowed by
50 ...
2
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
The usual type of the early Greek warship was the ment of penteconter or "fifty-
oar," a long, narrow galley with twenty-five^*^,, benches, on each of which two
oarsmen sat. The penteconter hardly came into use in Greece before the eighth ...
3
Everyday Things in Archaic Greece
67, how the bunt lines on twentieth-century square sails are arranged in a much
more Greek way than those of the nineteenth century. In addition, the penteconter
, of course, had forestays and backstays to secure the mast, halliards to haul up ...
Marjorie Quennell, C. H. Quennell, 1999
4
The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the ...
Thirty-oared craft, triacon- tors, were now built for lighter work, and the ship of the
line was the fifty-oared galley, the penteconter (Pl. 20). Twenty-four rowers lined
each side, and two steering oarsmen at the stern filled out the complement.
5
Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean: Papers in ...
jars.107 The penteconter was usually two-banked, some 23 metres long, as
compared to the trireme's 32, was fitted with a bronze ram,1"" and had adequate
but not excessive cargo space. When their city was about to fall to the Persians,
the ...
Brian Benjamin Shefton, Kathryn Lomas, 2004
6
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World
but when Herodotus and Thucydides assume the penteconter to have been the
standard ship of the line until the arrival of the trireme, they surely have the two-
banked version in mind.82 And ships with rowing complements much larger than
...
7
Leonidas of Sparta: A Heroic King
Abruptly the penteconter noticed the trireme, and with amazing agility pivoted
dramatically to avoid going on the rocks. But the trireme had cut off any escape. “
Surrender or we ram!” a voice shouted across the water. It took the commander of
...
8
Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and ...
Propitious Penteconter The first Greek rams were propelled by a line of ten
oarsmen on each side, for a total of twenty. Yet speed and power were now
paramount if the enemy was to be successfully impaled, so this meant more
rowers.
Robert L. O'Connell, 2002
9
The nine books of the History of Herodotus tr. from the text ...
Be that as it may, it appears to me, as far as I can guess the meaning of the
author, that one of the bridges consisted of penteconters and triremes, so
arranged as to have a trireme on the side of each penteconter ; whereas in the
other, each ...
10
Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
was an extension, and which kept its place by the side of the trireme, was the
penteconter or single-banked galley with fifty rowers. The short flat-bottomed
barges of the earliest seamen were not adapted either for rapid navigation or for
...
Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1864
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENTECONTER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
penteconter is used in the context of the following news items.
Origin of the Name Britain and the Western Greeks
According to Herodotus they travelled not in merchant ships but penteconter warships. A new book The Greek Empire of Marseille: Discoverer ... «Greek Reporter, May 14»
Greece's Living Heritage: Marseilles 2013
The penteconter, an ancient Greek galley in use since the archaic period. Photos Despina The penteconter, an ancient Greek galley in use ... «Western Queens Gazette, Dec 13»
Legendary boat goes for gold again
It is a replica of a penteconter (a galley with one tier of 50 oars, 25 on either side) with a ram that was used to attack and sink enemy vessels. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 08»
