The Trireme Trust - Conference
The Trireme: Lessons from Olympias
A Day Conference
Saturday 19 September, 1998
The Conference was held at the River & Rowing Museum, Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames.
Timetable
- 11.00 - 11.30
- Olympias and her Sea-Trials
- Dr. Boris Rankov - Chairman, Trireme Trust
- 11.30 - 11.45
- Videotape ofOlympias in action
- 11.45 - 12.15
- Towards a Revised Design
- Timothy Shaw - Director, Trireme Trust
- 12.00 - 12.45
- Proposals for a Revised Design
- Dr. John Coates - Director, Trireme Trust
- 2.30 - 3.00
- Triremes under Sail and Oar
- Dr. Ian Whitehead - Museums Officer, Hartlepool Museum Service
- 3.00 - 3.15
- Xenophon and the Speed of Triremes
- Prof. Hermann Wallinga - Prof. Ancient History, Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht
- 3.15 - 3.30
- The Reality of Long-Distance Rowing
- Antony Duff - Lecturer in Marine Studies, Falmouth Marine School, Cornwall
- 3.30 - 3.45
- A Sliding Stroke for Triremes
- Dr. John Hale - Director of Liberal Studies, University of Louisville, Kentucky
- 4.15 - 5.00
- Beyond Olympias: an Outsider's View
- Prof. Andre Sleeswyk - Professor of the History of Technology, University of Groningen
- (Paper presented by B. Rankov)
There is a chance that some of the papers might be put on the web - I'm waiting to hear from those concerned.