• Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology. It is also a commissioned ship in the Hellenic Navy of Greece...
  • Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology.
  • Olympias is a reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme of the 5th and 4th centuries BC, built in Greece to a design worked out by John Coates, a naval architect...
  • The full-size reconstruction Olympias built in the 1980s CE has demonstrated that a trireme could turn 360 degrees in less than two ship's lengths and turn 90...
  • But there was long debate over exactly how the triremes’ most distinctive features, the three banks of oars for which it is named, were deployed.
  • In 1987, the full-scale, fully functionally trireme Olympias was ready to be commissioned into the Greek navy and taken out for its first sea trials around the island of...
  • SeaTrials of the Trireme Olympias. The Trireme Dreadnought of the Ancient Mediterranean.
  • The Hellenic Navy is ready to welcome adult citizens from all over the world in order to row the unique functional replica of an Athenian Trireme of the 5th...
  • Odysseus' ship may well have been an early trireme, a sail-assisted craft-of-war featuring three banks of oars. ... Keratsini yard, near Piraeus – the Olympias.
  • The builders of Olympias used sources such as this relief of a Rhodian trireme cut into the rock at the foot of the Lindos acropolis.