NEW NRG VIRTUAL WORKSHOP - 10/11/2025 Researching & Building a Model of the Triremene Olympias

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NEW VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

10:30 AM – CENTRAL

Researching & Building a Model of the Triremene Olympias

By Richard Braithwaite

The NRG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.  Click the link below no earlier than 15 minutes before the start time for your location (listed above) to attend the Workshop.  Please give the speakers and hosts time to set up before the listed start time. There are plenty of seats for all.  Your help in this will be appreciated.

11:30 AM- EASTERN TIME

10:30 AM - CENTRAL TIME

9:30 AM - MOUNTAIN TIME

8:30 - AM PACIFIC TIME

15:30 GMT

In early 480 BC, the Athenians, fearing an invasion by the Persians, sent a delegation to the Oracle at Delphi seeking guidance.  “Why sit you doomed one?” the Oracle responded.  “Fly to the ends of the earth. All is ruin for fire and headlong god of war shall bring you low.” 

In response to this alarming prophecy, the Athenians sent a second delegation hoping for a less apocalyptic response.  Asked again, the Oracle answered, “though all else shall be taken, Zeus the all-seeing grants that the wooden wall only shall not fail.” 

Many interpreted the “wooden wall” as a palisade around the Acropolis, but Themistocles, the Athenian strategos (or General) convinced the people that the Oracle referred to the wooden walls of the fleet of 200 triremes Athens had constructed over the prior three years. 

In late 480 BC, Xerxes the Great, the Persian King, sitting on a golden throne, watched the destruction of his fleet.  Two hundred Athenian (and allied) triremes destroyed six to eight hundred triremes assembled by the Great King.  The “wooden walls” protected Athens. 

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Na4WD4K-gZaAxIIi5T4c12RHnsbHQHehNXo4WDV56KSE7ojr3TU_dxGD1x3yHL5LoWVWNsIdzlyn5tHe_sEgewdqeVUBWaENCnXpnOfNmr1Ztr4Q26biNTQNPp8ERshRg8=s0-d-e1-ft#https://thenrg.org/resources/Pictures/03572d1ec8124e05b3658cfb226af150.jpeg

Image from MSW Build Log

"I'm planning to include the background to the project and the construction of the hull, which all came before I started this build log and will do my best to answer any questions you have."  Richard Braithwaite

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/21958-trireme-olympias-by-richard-braithwaite/#comment-656491

MSW Build Log Link

 

ALL NRG MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THIS & ZOOM LINK BY EMAIL - A REMINDER WILL BE SENT OUT ON 10-09-2025

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The video of this presentation is now posted on the NRG website in the member's section of the Events area.

https://thenrg.org/events/workshops

 

Kurt