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'Polykopa' = warship?
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10-01-2016, 11:00 AM
(09-23-2016, 09:14 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: ... whether or not the word polykopa (πολύκωπα), or 'multi-oared', invariably refers to a seagoing warship ...No idea. The word just means "many oared". LSJ note usage by Euripides (Iphigenia in Tauris 981: polykopos skaphos) and Sophocles (Trachiniae 656: polykopos naus). Note also this papyrus of AD 402, where it seems to mean the galley of the governor of the Thebaid. |
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'Polykopa' = warship? - by Nathan Ross - 09-23-2016, 09:14 PM
RE: 'Polykopa' = warship? - by D B Campbell - 10-01-2016, 11:00 AM
RE: 'Polykopa' = warship? - by Nathan Ross - 10-01-2016, 11:21 AM
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