Talk:Quinquereme

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By AD 325 there were no more triremes, as the development of Greek fire (a chemical substance that caught fire when wetted) had changed the nature of battle at sea once again.

I'm not sure what to replace this sentence with, but something else must have happened to triremes - Greek fire wasn't invented until the 7th century. Adam Bishop 22:07, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Oops, you're quite right. I don't know where I got that from. Now deleted. Gdr 13:06, 2004 Aug 11 (UTC)

There were war machines in use among the Rhodesian Navy ~200BC-150BC which ejected a burning substance (not Greek fire). The source is Livy to look this up in detail. Wandalstouring 12:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Second Punic war

ROME was the major naval power at the beginning of the second Punic war. Carthage was not able to contact Hannibal nor send reinforcements for a long time, because Rome had a supreme fleet. Who is the one always correcting things the wrong way?

[edit] Quintiremes

As far as I can tell, these are just two names for the same type of ship Nik42 03:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

You mean quinquiremes? Some people are not sure about spelling it correctly. Wandalstouring 11:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] real history

they were developed by the greeks, improved by the carthagians and then stolen by the romans.

It is not clear. It is likely that they were developed in Greek Syracuse, but it could also have been Carthage. Both cities were strongly connected via family ties and during the great scientific leap in Syracuse (when the ballista and the pentere made teir appearance in the Greek world) a lot of nations, among them many Punic Carthaginian craftsmen, were involved in the developments. Wandalstouring 01:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Carthaginians favoured the bireme and the romans used quinquiremeres to assault syracuses docks. That was when archimedes got the greek defenders to refect sunlight from thier shields on to the roman galleys to set them on fire. I don't think that worked but it proves that the romans couldn't "steal" them - 5 June 2007