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Ameinocles

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Ameinocles
Αμεινοκλής
Born8th century BC
OccupationShipbuilder
Notable workInventor of Trireme

Ameinocles (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινοκλῆς; fl. 8th century BCE ) was a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Samos about 704 BC, and built four ships for the Samians.[1] Pliny the Elder says that Thucydides mentioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme,[2] 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.[3]

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  1. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War i. 13
  2. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia vii. 56
  3. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Ameinocles". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 141.

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