The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the ...

Once the trireme had engaged with the enemy ship, either by ramming it or running along side it, these soldiers would attempt to board the enemy and fight in hand-to-hand combat. Dressed in heavy ...

The trireme, less an individual warship and more of a series of ships, heavily influenced ancient naval warfare. Specifically, it was the Battle of Salamis, where 200 Athenian triremes held fast ...

In antiquity Piraeus was the principal port of ancient Athens, from which its distinctive trireme ships would sail across the Mediterranean Sea. The city's small archaeological museum currently has a ...

A trireme needed 170 men to row it - one man to each oar. It was steered by long oars at the stern or back of the ship. Fixed to the front of the trireme was a sharp metal ram. Image caption ...

Fixed to the front of the trireme was a sharp metal ram. In battle, the triremes tried to get close to the enemy ships, and if possible crash into them. The trireme's soldiers sometimes jumped ...

Pursued by a trireme she calmly and expertly rammed a friendly ship blocking her exit, and made her escape. Believing her to be an ally, the trireme dropped its pursuit, while Xerxes, believing ...