| These new biremes were cheaper than the trireme, and required only about 100 rowers. |
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| As the Greek name implies, the trireme had three rows of rowers on each side, developed from earlier Greek and Phoenician biremes. |
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| The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme. |
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| The era when trireme supremacy meant regional hegemony came to an end not long after that. |
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| The captain of the trireme, the trierarch, was not a specialist, but a wealthy citizen who had volunteered or been appointed to take up this prestigious position. |
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| By the end of the 4th century bce, armed deck soldiers had become so important in naval warfare that the trireme was superseded by heavier, decked-over ships with multiple rows of oarsmen. |
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| Galley warfare in the Classical Mediterranean was based on the ram-equipped trireme, which reached its highest level of development in ancient Greece from the 5th to the 1st century bc. |
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| The 7th century, by contrast, had witnessed rapid innovations, such as the introduction of the hoplite and the trireme, which still were the basic instruments of war in the 5th. |
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| Reduce any Corvus benefit by one for each trireme squadron. |
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| Trireme oarsmen used leather cushions to slide over the seats, which allowed them to use their leg strength as a modern oarsman does with a sliding seat. |
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