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Definition of Trierarchs

Trierarch
Trierarch Tri"er*arch, n. [L. trierarchus, Gr. ?; ? a trireme + ? a leader, a chief.] (Gr. Antiq.) (a) The commander of a trireme. (b) At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

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- name implies, the trierarch was responsible for the out****ing and crewing of a trireme, and for commanding it in battle. Trierarchs thus had to be men...
- wrote letters to the ****embly denouncing the two trierarchs and blaming them for the disaster. The trierarchs responded successfully to the allegations brought...
- the money for the boats (Heckel, p.229); and there were plenty of other trierarchs in the Indus fleet who were not natural-born sailors. Strabo recounts...
- exiled him were replaced with an oligarchy. Accordingly, a number of trierarchs and other leaders of the Athenian army at Samos began planning the overthrow...
- fleets as well. Under them, each warship was commanded by a trièrarchos or trierarch, a word which originally meant "trireme officer" but persisted when other...
- commemorated their victory with a dedication at Delphi of statues of the trierarchs who had fought in the battle. A verse inscription explained the cir****stances:...
- This is a list of ancient Macedonians, an ancient Gr**** tribe inhabiting the northeastern part of the Gr**** peninsula. Makednos ParmenionStrategos of...
- court, where he had him executed. In the official list of Alexander's trierarchs in India, preserved by the contemporary admiral Nearchus, Peithon is classified...
- Ptolemy I Soter (/ˈtɒləmi/; Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr, "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a Macedonian Gr**** general...
- list of trierarchs had been so before, or were descendants of former trierarchs, with the result that the families providing the trierarchs tended to...