triremes

Our information about the building and operation of the triremes is quite sketchy, or was within the last ten to fifteen years.

At any rate, Plutarch's text doesn't say anything about triremes, only that the crew rowed to these islands.

Do you suppose there were triremes just beached out in the Egyptian desert back then, too?

Another is that because of the wood used to construct them, triremes needed to be beached overnight to dry out.

This is not to say you or your son aren’t intelligent, just that knowing about triremes isn’t a sign of it.

As another comment points out, triremes and similar vessels usually beach at night.

Everyone knows Triremes can't end their turn a square away from shore!

One reason triremes didn't sail far from shore is that there is no room on board for the crew to do anything other than row.

My 9 year old knew all about Greek triremes.

Do you want triremes, maths, militia or granaries?

The Romans troddled along until Hannibal wiped certainty off their face, the Romans retooled, focused around a military society, and learned sailing from captured triremes to beat the better adversary.

Even after the invention and proliferation of cannon, navies and pirates in the Med continued to use rowed galleys, direct descendants of ancient triremes, through the middle ages into the 18th century.

Indeed, and triremes were lightly built - from Wikipedia [1]: "Triremes required a great deal of upkeep in order to stay afloat, as references to the replacement of ropes, sails, rudders, oars and masts in the middle of campaigns suggest.

Triremes had to be regularly lifted out of the water or they would become waterlogged.

People that have played different versions of Civilization will remember the Triremes.

Triremes are warships optimized for battle near shore.