Whoo! So, today was a good day! Mostly partly because I got my kindle back! And also my paper submission to the CAMWS Southern Section was accepted! Yay! Alright, but aside from that we did do a half day trip down to Piraias. First we stopped in the museum there, which has some amazing bronzes. This one's Artemis:
It's an awesome statue, not only because it is well preserved, but also because the inlaid eyes are still extant. There are two other awesome bronzes, but I won't flood you with too many pictures! Then we peeked at the arsenal, where they stored the movable ship parts when they weren't in use (oars, ropes, sails, and such) and the ship sheds, where triremes were pulled up out of the water to preserve them when they weren't in use. Unfortunately, not too much of those structures actually remain intact these days. Our last stop of the day was to look at a reconstructed trireme, which is a miracle of scanty clues and experimental archaeology. It turned out pretty cool, and though it is dry docked now, it was taken out and a bunch of silly college students and archaeologists proved it worked!
Triremes were sturdy, amazing ships. It took about 200 people to row each one, and they were mostly used as rams in order to sink enemy ships during naval encounters. And our last stop of the day was right next to that, a American become Greek ship from WWII that played a part in the anti-dictatorship protests during the years of the Junta in Greece when it fled to Italy.
It's name is Velos, which means arrow. ^^ And... that's it for today really! Now we're all scurrying about preparing to leave tomorrow. Tomorrow is our last big trip up North for a week. Hope all is well, love you all! <3
It's an awesome statue, not only because it is well preserved, but also because the inlaid eyes are still extant. There are two other awesome bronzes, but I won't flood you with too many pictures! Then we peeked at the arsenal, where they stored the movable ship parts when they weren't in use (oars, ropes, sails, and such) and the ship sheds, where triremes were pulled up out of the water to preserve them when they weren't in use. Unfortunately, not too much of those structures actually remain intact these days. Our last stop of the day was to look at a reconstructed trireme, which is a miracle of scanty clues and experimental archaeology. It turned out pretty cool, and though it is dry docked now, it was taken out and a bunch of silly college students and archaeologists proved it worked!
Triremes were sturdy, amazing ships. It took about 200 people to row each one, and they were mostly used as rams in order to sink enemy ships during naval encounters. And our last stop of the day was right next to that, a American become Greek ship from WWII that played a part in the anti-dictatorship protests during the years of the Junta in Greece when it fled to Italy.
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