ΠΗΛΕΥΣ ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ | THE OLYMPIAS TRIREME @Pilaeus | Uploaded 14 years ago | Updated 14 hours ago
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Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.
She was constructed from 1985 to 1987 by a shipbuilder in Piraeus. Finance came from the Hellenic Navy and donors such as Frank Welsh (a Suffolk banker, writer and trireme enthusiast). The building was advised by the historians J. S. Morrison and John F. Coates and the classics teacher Charles Willink, who with Welsh founded the Trireme Trust that initiated the project, and drew on evidence gained from underwater archaeology. The Trireme Trust is now chaired by Professor Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London).
The bronze bow ram weighed 200 kg. The ship was built from Oregon pine and Virginia oak.
1987 , , ..
. ( 1987) . 10 . 4 . 180 2,5 . () ( ).
Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.
She was constructed from 1985 to 1987 by a shipbuilder in Piraeus. Finance came from the Hellenic Navy and donors such as Frank Welsh (a Suffolk banker, writer and trireme enthusiast). The building was advised by the historians J. S. Morrison and John F. Coates and the classics teacher Charles Willink, who with Welsh founded the Trireme Trust that initiated the project, and drew on evidence gained from underwater archaeology. The Trireme Trust is now chaired by Professor Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London).
The bronze bow ram weighed 200 kg. The ship was built from Oregon pine and Virginia oak.
