Ancient Oars on the Wine-Dark Sea, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the mysteries and marvels of oar-powered galleys and warships in the ancient Mediterranean world. How many oars did they depend on? How many rowers and how many levels of rowers? And what are we to make of Ptolemy IV Philopator’s 40-oar Tessarakonteres? Find out…
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