pentaconter Synonyms
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pentaconter Meaning
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pentaconter (n.)
See Penteconter.
pentaconter Sentence Examples
- The ancient Greeks sailed in swift pentaconters, ships with fifty oars.
- The bireme evolved from the pentaconter, adding a second level of oars for increased speed.
- The Athenian navy employed hundreds of pentaconters during the Persian Wars.
- The Spartan fleet relied heavily on pentaconters for their amphibious operations.
- The Phoenicians also built pentaconters, but they were typically longer and broader than Greek designs.
- Herodotus described pentaconters as shallow-draft ships suitable for coastal navigation.
- The Romans adopted the pentaconter design for their own fleet, known as the quinquereme.
- The use of pentaconters declined in the later centuries of the Roman Empire.
- Modern historians use archaeological evidence to reconstruct the appearance and performance of pentaconters.
- The legacy of the pentaconter lives on today in the modern concepts of warships and naval warfare.
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See Penteconter.
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The ancient Greeks sailed in swift pentaconters, ships with fifty oars.
The bireme evolved from the pentaconter, adding a second level of oars for increased speed.
The Athenian navy employed hundreds of pentaconters during the Persian Wars.
The Spartan fleet relied heavily on pentaconters for their amphibious operations.
