- The
penteconter (alt.
spelling pentekonter, pentaconter,
pentecontor or pentekontor; Gr****: πεντηκόντερος, pentēkónteros, "fifty-oared"),
plural penteconters...
- Peloponnese, the
Dodecanese islands, Crete, and Ithaca,
comprising 1186
pentekonters,
ships with 50 rowers.
Thucydides says that
according to
tradition there...
-
Mazaeus coin
depicting a
pentekonter (c. 353–333 BC)...
- coup
during a
festival at Samos.
Samos happened to have a
large navy of
pentekonters.
Becoming a ship collector, he
attacked and
subdued all the neighbouring...
-
individual Etruscan cities. It is ****umed that the
Phocaean Gr****s had 60
pentekonters (ships with 48 oars and two
rudders for steering),: 79 not the trireme...
- an enōmotarches. Two enōmotiai
formed a pentēkostys of 72 men
under a
pentēkontēr, and two pentēkostyai were
grouped into a
lochos of 144 men
under a lochagos...
-
Tennes Coinage of Sidon,
dated 351/0 BC.
Phoenician pentekonter sailing left. Date
above (here faint),
waves below. King of
Persia standing right, holding...
- the
Battle of
Salamis (September 480 BCE), when 371 Gr****
triremes and
pentekonters defeated King Xerxes'
Persian fleet of over 1,200 ships, that included...
-
ships that the
Romans or
their adversaries had, such as
triremes or
pentekonters. The
number of
ships provided by the
socii navales is disputed, with...
