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A Documentary of Koulas Antoniades's The Athenian trireme /

The program documents the construction of a full-sized replica of an Athenian trireme of the 5th century B.C. and shows how the Greeks of the period used their naval supremacy to protect their home bases while colonizing the furthest reaches of the Mediterranean and maintaining intimate contact with...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Greek National Television, Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1992]
Subjects:
Triremes.
Athens (Greece) > History, Naval.
Navigation > Greece > Athens > History.
Ships > Reconstruction.
Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Documentary films.
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Summary:The program documents the construction of a full-sized replica of an Athenian trireme of the 5th century B.C. and shows how the Greeks of the period used their naval supremacy to protect their home bases while colonizing the furthest reaches of the Mediterranean and maintaining intimate contact with Athens itself.
Item Description:Title on cassette label: The Athenian trireme.
"FFH 2699."
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Photographers, Vaggelis Poulis, Dimitris Kaloudis, Yiannis Exarchos ; editor, Kostas Tiligadas ; music, Michael Gregoriou ; narrator, Tom Alexopoulos.