Glossary
- Askoma
- Leather sleeve for keeping seawater from entering through the thalamian oarports.
- Keleustes (pl. Keleustai)
- The bo'sun who controls the oarcrew
- Thalamian
- English term from Greek thalamios, the name for the oarsmen in the lowest file of the trieres
- Thole, tholepin
- The pin of wood forming, with the oarloop, the fulcrum of the oar
- Thranite
- English term from Greek thranites, the name for the oarsmen in the uppermost file of the trieres
- Trierarch
- The captain of a trieres
- Zygian
- English term from Greek zygios, the name for the oarsmen in the (vertically) middle file of the trieres