ATHENS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Sailing with an ancient Athenian wooden trireme was a dream to come true for most of the visitors who boarded on the "Olympias" trireme on Wednesday afternoon at the ...

Visitors row the Olympias, a replica of an ancient galley, at Saronic gulf in southern Athens. The 37-meter (121-foot) wooden vessel moored off southern Athens is an experimental reconstruction of the ...

John Coates had retired as chief naval architect at the British ministry of defence when he took a central role in the building of a Greek trireme, the fastest oared warship of the ancient world.

The Consul General of Greece in Sydney Dr Stavros Kyrimis is organising an event for Greeces Independence Day, 25th March 1821.The hour long celebratory evening will be held at the Australian National ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was supposed to be a glorious display of British pomp combined with a potent symbol of ancient Greek ...

There at dawn their rowers, exhausted after a night’s work, were surprised by a Greek fleet that was rested and bristling for battle. Combat was hand-to-hand and by javelin and arrows, but it mostly ...