About Ameinocles
Lived 800 BC – 760 BC. Ameinocles was a shipbuilder, engineer and shipbuilding.
Ameinocles (; fl. 8th century BCE
) was a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Samos about 704 BC, and built four ships for the Samians. Pliny the Elder says that Thucydides mentioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme, but this is a mistake, for Thucydides merely states that triremes were first built at Corinth in Greece, without ascribing their invention to Ameinocles. According to Syncellus, however, triremes were first built at Athens by Ameinocles.
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Who was Ameinocles?
ancient Corinthian shipbuilder
When was Ameinocles born?
Ameinocles was born in 800 BC in Ancient Corinth.
When did Ameinocles die?
Ameinocles died in 760 BC.
What was Ameinocles's occupation?
Ameinocles was a shipbuilder, engineer and shipbuilding.
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