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Modern scholarship is divided on the provenance of the trireme, Greece or Phoenicia, and the exact time it developed into the foremost ancient fighting ship.[3] According to Thucydides, the trireme was introduced to Greece by the Corinthians in the late 8th century BC, and the Corinthian Ameinocles built four such ships for the Samians.[4] This was interpreted by later writers, Pliny and Diodorus, to mean that triremes were invented in Corinth.[5] Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century, drawing on earlier works, explicitly attributes the invention of the trireme (trikrotos naus, "three-banked ship") to the Sidonians[6] the possibility remains that the earliest three-banked warships originated in Phoenicia.[citation needed]