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This podcast is going to be the companion of issue three: the Age of the Trireme. We can discuss the following topics, depending on which of the authors takes part:

The run-sheet proposal below will be continually updated up until the podcast is recorded

Run-sheet for podcast recording June 22nd (prov.), time?
  • Introduction by Jasper, authors taking part, theme of the discussion
  • Which items were discussed in this issue?
    • Representative sources for triremes
    • Trireme tactics
    • Hoplite marines
    • Roman triremes before the 1st Punic War
    • The battle of Sybota
  • What was missing or only succinctly discussed?
    • Strategic uses of the trireme, e.g. during the first phase of the Peloponnesian War
    • Reconstructing Olympias
    • Why the trireme was superseded
    • Origins of the trireme
    • Roman Imperial triremes
    • Naval didactic literature?
  • Great trireme battles: from Salamis (480 BC) to Hellespont (324 AD)
  • Influence of naval tactics on land warfare
  • Trireme crews

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written by Paullus Scipio, June 12, 2008
The tremendous costs involved and how th fleet was funded might be useful information...there is a fair amount of information available on Athens...including some lawsuits!!
Podcast now up!
written by JaspertheManager, June 26, 2008
The podcast's been recorded and can now be downloaded from iTunes and feedburner! Links on the homepage

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