Trireme

>>30653299
sure why not, the Polynesians found hawaii on a fucking raft.

>>30653299

That depends on how good the navigator is. People sailed around the world in less.

>>30653299
Assuming no bad weather and that they knew where to make port probably.

>>30653496
No they didn't.

>>30653299
Why would the Greeks be headed to Iceland?

It possibly happened. Pytheas (a Greek navigator from Massalia, now Marseille) was the first recorded Mediterranean explorer to travel north of the Arctic circle, documenting the midnight sun and making several stops in Scandinavia and the Scottish islands. He also describes a land called Thule, which many suggest is Iceland, though it could also be around Trondheim in Norway. Either way it's possible.

>>30654451
Very cool.

Got any reading material on it? I love reading about explorers from the Roman and Greek eras.

>>30654451
The Thule people were what are now Inuit people.

>>30654465
Well, Pytheas himself wrote about it but his works are lost. The closest we have to primary source material is Strabo, writing a few hundred years later.

>>30653299

It would be an immense physical feat for the rowers but otherwise it should do just fine.

>>30654497
God damnit, why does everything cool have to be lost to history?

If I had a time machine I'd just go back and grab copies of all of the books I could.

>>30654515
They had sails man. The biggest problem taking a trireme like in OP's pic into the open ocean is the lack of freeboard. It would be incredibly easy for heavy seas to swamp it. That being said, it's definitely possible. Dangerous as fuck though.

>>30653299
Not in a fucking trireme.
Explorers would have used smer ships that relied less on oars, probably having only a single tier of them, and with a small crew.
Think viking longship built by mediteranians and with a ram prow.