Quadrireme!

[Spedius]

Hi Jim,
Haven't anymore pictures, but if I find I'll post them.
Jurjen

Ave Jurjen,

That would be very kind of you, all images of Roman/Greek ships are most welcome.

BTW which image hosting website do you use?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

[jvrjenivs]

Hi Jim,

The image I posted in my first post is hosted on the site where I found it. Just copied the URL of the image... And I've my own webserver, so hosting isn't a kind of a problem for me..

If I could find more images, I'll let you know. For now I only found the 2 pages mentioned above.

[Spedius]

Hi Jim,
The image I posted in my first post is hosted on the site where I found it. Just copied the URL of the image... And I've my own webserver, so hosting isn't a kind of a problem for me..
If I could find more images, I'll let you know. For now I only found the 2 pages mentioned above.

Ave Jurgen,

Smart man, I didn't think of that.

So all you do is add [img]to%20the%20front%20and[/img] after the image address?



That creates a dynamic link and up pops the image in your post?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

[Praefectusclassis]

Yup. (provided that the picture is not too big). And the site should react fast enough.

[Spedius]

Yup. (provided that the picture is not too big). And the site should react fast enough.

Ave Jasper and Jurgen,

It doesn't seem to want to work for me?

Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

[Praefectusclassis]

Link seems not to work. I tried it before, on its original site. That site is just slow, methinks, so RAT times out before the picture is displayed.

[Spedius]

Link seems not to work. I tried it before, on its original site. That site is just slow, methinks, so RAT times out before the picture is displayed.

Ave Jasper,

Thank you for explaining it for me.

I'm governed by the speed of the host site?

The principle is sound though?

If I just follow the steps that I outlined above, I should be able to have images in my posts as well as the attachments?

This is a eureeka moment, "methinks".

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

[Praefectusclassis]

I'm governed by the speed of the host site?

All internet traffic is two sided, with the asking side (in this case: RAT or even your own computer) imposing a time limit on how long it wants to wait for a reply. If the reply takes too long, the connection is terminated.

The principle is sound though?

Yes. [_IMG_] complete link including http... [_/IMG_] (remove the _) would show the picture at that location.

[tlclark]

On the list of my ancient history interests, ancients ships is lower than armor, manuscripts or maps obviously, but it's in the top fifteen.

Here's a relief from the palatine museum:

http://astro.temple.edu/~tlclark/pictur ... latine.JPG

Also, there are some bronze antefixes in the basement of the Palazzo Massimo from a barge found in Lake Nemi. The bronzes are endcaps meant to protect the endgrain on exposed wooden beams. They were decorated with wolf and boar heads, hands and gorgon heads. Some were more than 2 feet in diameter.

These ships were just huge.

Travis

[Praefectusclassis]

Yup. Seen those!

[tlclark]

Yup. Seen those!

They're just amazing. Tried in vain to get good pictures.

Ships aren't my thing, but I would have loved to have seen one of these. The scale of vessels on the Indian Ocean trade was staggering.

Provided the warships were anything like the barges or cargo ships they would make a british man-of-war look like a dingy.

Travis

[Praefectusclassis]

Except they weren't. An 18th century man-o-war is easily 50, 60 meters long, while an ancient wargalley was 30, 40 meters tops. Still, they must have been very impressive. All those oars being invisible powered, moving in unison.

[tlclark]

Except they weren't. An 18th century man-o-war is easily 50, 60 meters long, while an ancient wargalley was 30, 40 meters tops. Still, they must have been very impressive. All those oars being invisible powered, moving in unison.

Well this isn't my thing, but we do have evidence of merchant vessels in the 60-100m range, ungodly HUGE ships making the trade between the Red Sea and India. Why are the warships so much smaller? Or is it a matter of logistics, easier to float a navy of smaller more agile ships than several behemoths?

thanks

Travis

[Praefectusclassis]

If your ship = your weapon and it is dependant on speed, you want to make it as fast and manoeuvrable as possible. Fast means as many rowers as you can cram in. Mass helps for your strike, but not for manoeuvrability. Moreover, these ships have to be pulled ashore as much as possible. A huge behemoth is hard to house in a shipshed.