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became apparent that the
topmost tier of rowers, the thranitai, of the "
aphract" (un-decked and unarmoured)
Athenian triremes were
vulnerable to attack...
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Lenormant Relief, from the
Athenian Acropolis,
depicting the
rowers of an
aphract Athenian trireme, c. 410 BC.
Found in 1852, it is one of the main pictorial...
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League fleet consisted of 200 triremes.
These were of the sl****
Athenian aphract (deckless) design,
originally developed by
Themistocles primarily for ramming...
- be
confused with the Seleucid,
Parthian or
Byzantine cataphracts) and
aphracts (unarmored).
Cataphracts was a term
commonly emplo**** to
describe fully...
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metres (14 ft) wide
which is only big
enough for small,
single banked,
Aphracts of
around 18
meters in length, that they were not parallel, at different...
