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

by: Sullivan, D.F.

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Siegecraft : two tenth-century instructional manuals by "Heron of Byzantium"

Authors:Heron Alexandrinus, Denis F. Sullivan, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Summary:"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.

Series:
Dumbarton Oaks studies, 36

xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents:
Parangelmata
Geodesia

Greek text, with introduction, facing translation and commentary in English

Subjects:
Byzantine Empire
Early works
Guerre de siège Empire byzantin Ouvrages avant 1800
Mesure Instruments Histoire
Oorlogvoering
Siege warfare
Siege warfare Byzantine Empire Early works to 1800

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

by: Sullivan, D.F.

• ISBN-13: 9780884022701 / 978-0-88402-270-1
• ISBN-03: 0884022706 / 0-88402-270-6
• Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 2000

Price: 65,74 EURO

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by: Chadwick, J. Killen, J.T. Olivier, J.-P.

• ISBN-13: 9780521080859 / 978-0-521-08085-9
• ISBN-03: 0521080851 / 0-521-08085-1
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971

Price: 59,00 EURO

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by: Roux, G.

• Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1958

Price: 95,00 EURO

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• , ΑΘΗΝΑ, 1982

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• ISBN-13: 9780860549666 / 978-0-86054-966-6
• ISBN-03: 0860549666 / 0-86054-966-6
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 1999