penteconters

Some of the ships might have been smaller than penteconters, that is, twenty-oared ships, and some might have been larger, that is, merchant vessels, so “around 300” is a plausible estimate of the number of Greek ships that left Aulis for Troy.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

Some of the ships might have been smaller than penteconters, that is, twenty-oared ships, and some might have been larger, that is, merchant vessels, so “around 300” is a plausible estimate of the number of Greek ships that left Aulis for Troy.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

Athenians, and three penteconters came from the Tyrrhenians.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

To carry 15,000 men to Troy the Greeks would have required three hundred penteconters, assuming every man rowed.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

In that case the Greeks would have needed nine hundred men or eighteen penteconters, assuming the soldiers did their own rowing.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

To carry 15,000 men to Troy the Greeks would have required three hundred penteconters, assuming every man rowed.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

In that case the Greeks would have needed nine hundred men or eighteen penteconters, assuming the soldiers did their own rowing.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

On each of two bridges nearly three hundred warships a mixture of penteconters and triremes were anchored after having been lashed together by cables—white flax for the Phoenicians and papyrus for the Egyptians.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Of the thirty-one members of the Hellenic League, a mere fourteen city-states manned the warships at Artemisium, for a total of 280 warships—271 triremes and 9 penteconters.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Leucas, for instance, sent only three triremes; Cythnos sent only a trireme and a penteconter; while Melos, Siphnos and Seriphos sent only penteconters—two from Melos, one each from Siphnos and Seriphos.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004