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The Trireme and History

The Trireme and History THE TRIREME AND HISTORY BY H. T. WALLINGA1) Almost half a century ago J. S. Morrison published his celebrated paper) concerning the reconstruction of the Greek trireme. It was the result of the combined efforts of his father as expert builder of a scale model and of himself as an authority on the ancient, primarily Greek, sources for that very problematical type of ship. The great merit of the Morrisons has been to exploit the whole of the evidence, including such out-of-the-way testimonies as that of Zosimos (V 20.4), and in particular to explore to the full the implications of what no doubt is the most important single piece of evidence for the design of the trireme, the so-called Lenormant relief (GOS Clas. 1). They demonstrated that a ship (model) built on the basis of this-and other-evidence was perfectly viable (against the most aggressive contrary assertions of Tarn). Very recently plans to build a full-scale replica of the fifth century trireme a la Morrison have matured and at the moment of writing have been realized. Therefore this is a fitting epoch indeed for the appearance of a systematic treatment of the type, which is given in J. S. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Trireme and History

Mnemosyne , Volume 43 (1-2): 132 – Jan 1, 1990

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Brill
Copyright
© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0026-7074
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1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852590X00081
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Abstract

THE TRIREME AND HISTORY BY H. T. WALLINGA1) Almost half a century ago J. S. Morrison published his celebrated paper) concerning the reconstruction of the Greek trireme. It was the result of the combined efforts of his father as expert builder of a scale model and of himself as an authority on the ancient, primarily Greek, sources for that very problematical type of ship. The great merit of the Morrisons has been to exploit the whole of the evidence, including such out-of-the-way testimonies as that of Zosimos (V 20.4), and in particular to explore to the full the implications of what no doubt is the most important single piece of evidence for the design of the trireme, the so-called Lenormant relief (GOS Clas. 1). They demonstrated that a ship (model) built on the basis of this-and other-evidence was perfectly viable (against the most aggressive contrary assertions of Tarn). Very recently plans to build a full-scale replica of the fifth century trireme a la Morrison have matured and at the moment of writing have been realized. Therefore this is a fitting epoch indeed for the appearance of a systematic treatment of the type, which is given in J. S.

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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