ATHENS, Greece -- For a NATO-member warship, Greece's Olympias is pretty unusual. It's got a zero carbon footprint, no whale-zapping sonar and an antiquated propulsion system. The 37-meter (121-foot) ...
With a bronze battering ram attached to its prow and a crew of nearly 200 oarsmen, the trireme helped turn Athens into a naval superpower. Harder than it looksOlympias, a reproduction of an ancient ...
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 ...