Talk:Dromon

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The ship in the upper illustration is not a dromon but a 17th century galley. The fresco is an icon of St. John Chrysostomos and the removal of his remains, now in Byzantine Museum, Athens. 85.130.132.54 03:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Link Errors

None of the links at the end of the article work or are helpful/useful. We should try to fix them/link to the exact useful site. The first two are '404:file not found's and the last one is a central site that doesn't obviously connect to the Byzantine empire/dromons. 72.93.78.209 (talk) 18:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Copied??

This part is almost directly copied from the nationmaster.com encyclopedia. The dromons had a central tower (xylokastron = wooden castle) near the main mast, from which the marines could use their bow and arrows or throw spears and other projectiles. Dromons were frequently equipped with flamethrowers (siphones, hence the ships were described as siphonophoroi dromones) that discharged Greek fire and catapults capable of hurling 10 kg projectiles up to 250 meters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esk3 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

The Byzantine Navy Article

The Byzantine Navy article includes more info about the Dromon than this article does. Should we incorporate some of that info into this article and thin that one out, or just leave them??? Esk3 (talk) 02:27, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Having rewritten the Byzantine navy article to its current form, I intend to flesh the dromon article further out, but I am rather busy in real life lately. If you want to copy the info from the Byzantine navy article, do so, but do not "thin out" the latter. A general overview of the dromon is essential there. Constantine ✍ 10:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Chelandion

In what way are the chelandion variants actually dromons? From the article it's not entirely clear since I assume that a dromon is a specific type of war galley. If so, why are the ousiakon and the pamphylon not described as separate ship types of their own? What is the actual common denominator other that they were all used by the Byzantine navy?

Peter ^Isotalo 16:16, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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