A video on “Sea Trials of the Trireme Olympias”
Some of the works referenced in this podcast include
Lionel Casson. The Ancient Mariners. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Lionel Casson. Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Philip de Souza, Seafaring and Civilization: Maritime Perspectives on World History. London: Profile Books, 2001.
Robert Gardiner, ed., The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995.
Glenn E. Markoe, The Phoenicians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Fik Meijer, A History of Seafaring in the Classical World. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
J. S. Morrison, J. F. Coates, & N. B. Rankov, The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Touchstone, 1998.
Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. New York: Anchor Books, 2007.