From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

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Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

While most Roman amphitheaters have long since succumbed to the ravages of time, several remain or have been refurbished to a ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze ... warships to assess how effective the rams were during naval battles. “This research can help us understand the evolution of major ...

Likewise, the Holy Roman Empire, an already loose association ... why not celebrate a lifelong commitment to love by watching men fight each other in a giant mock naval battle? It’s true: A ...

The Roman historian Cassius Dio tells us nearly a century after the fact that the Emperor Titus put on a naval battle of some kind in the Colosseum during its inaugural year in 80 A.D. Five years ...

Warning: The following contains some SPOILERS for Gladiator II!A historian is pointing out one historical error in the shark naval battle in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ...

A naval battle taking place in the Colosseum ... while the other was held inside the Colosseum itself. The Roman historian Cassius Dio wrote that animals were involved in the performace, albeit ...