Artist: Roger Payne (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (450mm x 310mm)
Date: 1981
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Roger Payne.

Convinced by Themistocles that their future lay in supremacy at sea, the Athenians built a formidable fleet of triremes - war galleys with three tiers of oars. This was to combat the might of the Persian land army under Xerxes.

Inset: The precise positioning of the oars and oarsmen in a trireme is uncertain. The arrangement depicted here is the most likely.

This is the original artwork for Look and Learn 24th January 1981.

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