In the 3rd century BCE, at the height of the Hellenistic age’s appetite for spectacle and scale, a ship was built so vast that even ancient writers struggled to describe it without awe. It was called the Tessarakonteres, or “forty-rowed”, and it was the largest and most ambitious naval constructions of antiquity.
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