Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by "Heron of Byzantium" by Denis F. Sullivan

Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by "Heron of Byzantium"

Dumbarton Oaks Studies

Denis F. Sullivan

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nonfiction history
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The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the a...

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