Cybernetics — Rowing In The Athenian Navy
November 27, 2000
Rob Colburn
http://www.row2k.com/features/32/Cybernetics-—Rowing-In-The-Athenian-Navy/
30 years ago or so Avalon Hill had a bookcase game out on tactical classical naval warfare called Trireme. I played it once or twice it really did give you a sense of the tactics.
It seems to me that the use of enslaved rowers for naval combat is much more the stuff of Hollywood then was actually done. The only ones that I think I know for sure that did it were the Romans, Imperial Spanish, (Not sure about the other Mediterranean powers - Venice, Genoa, etc.!) & the Ottomans. I am not convinced the Romans did it as much as its commonly portrayed.