Some badass machines of the day.
Be fun to row in one, even in regards to the following, where Aristophanes, in his comedy play The Frogs, refers to the common habit of the upper banks of oarsmen “farting in the face of those below”
“Was that a ribbet?” ;^)
Aeschylus, the first known writer of Greek tragedy, defended Athens at the battles of Marathon (hoplite), and Salamis (in the rower’s bench), some years apart.