Everything about Syracusia totally explained
The
Syracusia was an
ancient Greek ship. With a length of 55 meters (180.4 feet), is sometimes claimed to be the
largest transport ship of antiquity. It was designed by
Archimedes and built around 240 BC by
Archias of
Corinth on the orders of
Hieron II of
Syracuse. It was later given to
Ptolemy (Ptolemaios) III Euergetes of
Egypt and renamed the
Alexandris.
A discussion of this ship, as well as the complete text of
Athenaeus (late 2nd-century Greek writer who quotes a detailed description of the "Syracusia" from an earlier, now lost, writer Moschion) is in Casson's "Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World".
Of particular interest in the discussion of the construction of the ship is the detailed description of the efforts taken to protect the hull from
biofouling, including coating it with
horsehair and
pitch. This may be the first example of proactive
antifouling technology (designed to prevent the attachment of, rather than to remove, fouling organisms).
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