They traded along the Coastlines and brought other goods to the Greek city states.
Over the past 3three and a half thousand years.
Greek.
gallays
Greek sea power and the fact that Persian sea power depended on Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships, made it inevitable that Persia could not prevail.
The sirens in Greek mythology were half woman half bird monsters that sang sweet songs to sailors that made them forget everything and crash their ships. No, they were not worshipped.
The first real vessels that could be termed 'ships' were built by the Greek civilisation almost 4,000 years ago. Some of these ships carried over 100 people and cargo. They were made of wood and sometimes had sails and sometimes many oars.
Shipwrights made boats and ships
food,ships
triremes
Most likely, yes. You have to think, it had been 10 years, there had been a lot of fighting and a lot of dead, not to mention the plague that spread through the Greek camp. I imagine they left with far fewer men than they came with, and thus, needed fewer ships to get home.
The Persian ships were larger and relied on closing to enemy ships to board. The Greek ships were lighter and more manoeuverable, and relied on ramming and sinking the opposition.
If I remember right, the Greek ships were made of first wood bords then rope shoved into the crackes. And then tar was slathered over to make it water proof. Finally, bee's wax was added to make it move through the water easly.