Medieval and early modern galleys with three files of oarsmen per side are sometimes referred to as triremes.

History

Origins

Depictions of two-banked ships (biremes), with or without the parexeiresia (the outriggers, see below), are common in 8th century BC and later vases and pottery fragments, and it is at the end of that century that the first references to three-banked ships are found. Fragments from an 8th-century

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