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How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation

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How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation
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Recall, if you will, the first time you read Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad. The section likely to have given you the most trouble — unless, of course, you’re blessed with an obsessive interest in ancient naval warfare — is the much-remarked-upon Catalogue of Ships, a rundown of not just the contingents of the Achaean army sailing to Troy, but also the ships they’re doing it in. However evocative Homer’s poetry, more than a few modern readers may face a certain difficulty imagining ancient Greek vessel

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