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[Nikias]

Nicely done.

BUT.....assuming you strive for realism:

When a ship shears another ships oars there is total chaos under the deck. Oarsmen covered in blood and impaled by wooden stikcs from brocken oars.
Wooden debris flies around (lots of wooden spikes)
Epivatae = hoplites an archers are kneeling. If the attacked ship's Epivatae are found standing near the shearing the end up in the water.
Some even falling on the other side's oars and braking their bones.

No reason for the trierarch not to wear armor.

Thanks for enduring my criticism

Kind regards

Thanks for the interesting feedback! I'll certainly keep all that in mind next time I make a naval scene (it might be a while though, this was a real PITA). My idea for this image was that the two ships have come to rest alongside each other. It is possible that the closest ship has sheared the oars of the blue ship, and the further row of oarsmen are leaning forward as much as possible in order to flatten their oars against the hull. At this point, with the ships lying more or less still side by side, the crews are engaging in melee. This scene was based on Thucydides' description of the battle of Sybota, which resembled a land battle more than a classic naval engagement. However, your post has inspired me to perhaps make another painting depicting what you are describing sometime in the future.

Here is a sketch of my next idea, and I'd like to run it by you guys. It represents some hoplites, perhaps Athenians trekking through the forests of Aetolia under Demosthenes in 426. Has anyone been there? What is the terrain there like? I figured deciduous trees and ferns, is that correct?