06-20-2006, 03:15 PM
Jona Lendering
I don’t know that Thucydides meant to imply no ramming, but rather just the opposite. The ‘new’ or ‘Athenian’ fashion was essentially very nearly exclusively one of ramming.
Quote: I think that smashing the oars is sufficient to disable an opponent, so ramming is not really necessary. It is interesting to see that the first naval battle Thucydides describes, Sybota, is, as he calls it, "old fashioned", i.e., without ramming.
I don’t know that Thucydides meant to imply no ramming, but rather just the opposite. The ‘new’ or ‘Athenian’ fashion was essentially very nearly exclusively one of ramming.
Paul Klos
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
