The Winnowing Oar (athereloigos - Greek ἀθηρηλοιγός) is an object that appears in Books XI and XXIII of Homer's Odyssey. [1] In the epic, Odysseus is instructed by Tiresias to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing shovel .

As exemplified in the trireme, the Greeks used to project the upper level of oars through an outrigger (parexeiresia), while the later Punic tradition heightened the ship, and had all three tiers of oars projecting directly from the side hull.

A trireme (/ ˈtraɪriːm / TRY-reem; from Latin trirēmis [1] 'with three banks of oars'; cf. Ancient Greek: τριήρης, romanized: triḗrēs[2], lit. 'three-rower') was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans. [3][4]

In the days of Greece’s Golden Age, they cleaved the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea, from Salamis to the shores of Troy: elegant, imposing, and deadly. They were oared warships—triremes—and fleets of hundreds of them ruled the …

Trireme, oar-powered warship that reached its highest point of development in the eastern Mediterranean during the 5th century bce. Light, fast, and maneuverable, it was the principal naval vessel with which Persia, Phoenicia, and the Greek city …

Light and fast, with 25 oars to a side, it played an important role in the early spread of Grecian influence throughout the Mediterranean. As the Greek maritime city-states sped the growth of commerce and thus the need for protection at sea, there evolved a …

A Thranite (Greek Thranites, plural Thranitai) was an oarsman on the highest, uppermost bank of oars. Since he wielded the longest oar, sometimes he was given extra pay, as happened during the Athenian expedition to Syracuse in bc 415.

Each of the crew's three levels has a different name, taken from the Greek: the bottom oars are Thalamians, the middle are Zygians, and the top are Thranites. In 2004, the ship transported the Olympic flame across Greece's Piraeus harbor before the opening of …

Apr 14, 2009 · Trireme, ancient Greek warship with three files of oarsmen on each side, as well as sails, 38 meters/115 foot long. It was mentioned by Thucydides during the 8th century BC. It evolved from the early Phoenician and Greek armed merchant ships. Remus is latin for oar and tri meaning the three tiers.

Jun 4, 2024 · Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a great power.