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| rdfs:comment | - A staple of the Sword and Sandal and Fantasy genres. The hero is enslaved and forced to work as a galley rower, while chained to his fellows. Necessary embellishments include:
* A large sailor beating time on a drum
* A brutal first mate with a whip
* A friendly Scary Black Man chained next to the hero, who will die heroically for the hero's freedom The alternative, for a male slave, to Gladiator Games. Examples of Galley Slave include:
- Ancient navies generally preferred to rely on free men to man their galleys and slaves were usually not put at the oars except in times of pressing manpower demands or extreme emergency, and in some of these cases they would earn their freedom by this. There is no evidence that ancient navies ever made use of condemned criminals as oarsmen, despite the popular image from novels such as Ben Hur.
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| abstract | - A staple of the Sword and Sandal and Fantasy genres. The hero is enslaved and forced to work as a galley rower, while chained to his fellows. Necessary embellishments include:
* A large sailor beating time on a drum
* A brutal first mate with a whip
* A friendly Scary Black Man chained next to the hero, who will die heroically for the hero's freedom The alternative, for a male slave, to Gladiator Games. Examples of Galley Slave include:
- Ancient navies generally preferred to rely on free men to man their galleys and slaves were usually not put at the oars except in times of pressing manpower demands or extreme emergency, and in some of these cases they would earn their freedom by this. There is no evidence that ancient navies ever made use of condemned criminals as oarsmen, despite the popular image from novels such as Ben Hur.
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