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

Denis F. Sullivan

Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by  Heron of Byzantium
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country
United States
Published
31 January 2000
Pages
360
ISBN
9780884022701

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

Denis F. Sullivan

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 archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.

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