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Author : E.W. Marsden
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Artillery: Historical Development, Technical Treatises written by E.W. Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric William Marsden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Artillery written by Eric William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defining a piece of artillery as a 'relatively complex engine powered by springs of resilient metal, composed of several mechanical devices, and designed to hurl bolts or shot over the longest possible range', Marsden presents a comprehensive account of the development and historical employment of ancient artillery from its invention in 399 BC to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West (c. AD 400). Among the many topics raised are the influence of the introduction of artillery on warfare, the organization of artillery by states and monarchs, the obtaining of artificers and the training of artillery-men by ancient governments, and the effects of artillery on the design of fortifications. The work is based on the Greek and Latin texts describing the construction of catapults, ballistae and other machines translated in Greek and Roman Artillery: Technical Treatises"--
Author : Eric William Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Artillery written by Eric William Marsden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Greek and Latin treatises, with a facing English translation, which enable Marsden to trace mechanical progress in Greek and Roman artillery over five hundred years. Each text and translation is followed by extensive notes which contain explanatory diagrams which reconstruct the machines. Additional chapters discuss and reconstruct the 4th-century ballista and the onager based on a range of sources.
Author : E. W. Marsden
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Artillery : Historical Development written by E. W. Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Courtney Roby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077303
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature written by Courtney Roby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts.
Author : Andrew N. Sherwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926200
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook written by Andrew N. Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.
Author : Philip Sabin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521782732
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare written by Philip Sabin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First volume of a systematic and up-to-date account of warfare from Archaic Greece to Republican Rome.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252584
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538178214
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A History of Artillery written by Jeremy Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Artillery traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battle. Black shows that artillery sits within the general history of a war as a means that varied greatly between armies and navies, and also across time.
Author : William Michael Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199382255
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Age of Titans written by William Michael Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Titans examines how heavy warships crewed by thousands of men developed from the agile triremes so popular during the Greek Classical Age. Following Alexander the Great, a new focus on naval siege warfare explains the rise in popularity of big ship navies and defines the model of naval power they made possible.
Author : Gerrit Dworok
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497173
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Means to Kill written by Gerrit Dworok and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, technological innovation has functioned as a driver of civilization and inspired many people's belief in progress. When it comes to warfare, where technology is applied with a cruel and deadly logic, a nuanced view is needed. From siege engines to drones, innovation has often served a less enlightened aim: elimination of the enemy. This collection of new essays from specialists in military history examines the interdependence between war and technology from a number of regional perspectives.
Author : David S. Potter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405199180
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Roman Empire written by David S. Potter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the most recent discoveries. This Companion brings together thirty original essays guiding readers through Roman imperial history and the field of Roman studies Shows that Roman imperial history is a compelling and vibrant subject Includes significant new contributions to various areas of Roman imperial history Covers the social, intellectual, economic and cultural history of the Roman Empire Contains an extensive bibliography
Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942137
Total Pages : 2407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 2407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Author : Michael Eisenberg
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254094
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages written by Michael Eisenberg and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here are focusing on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence. The X papers of the book, are written by some of the best scholars in their field, presenting here for the first time the results of their research, in the west and in the east.
Author : Athenaeus (Mechanicus.)
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515085328
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)
Download or read book On Machines written by Athenaeus (Mechanicus.) and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everett U. Crosby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135576254
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Medieval Warfare written by Everett U. Crosby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-08-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and cultural development that a general account of this period is, in large measure, a description of how men went to war.
Author : Steve Mason
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442210
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 1B: Judean War 2 written by Steve Mason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1b in Brill's Josephus Project contains Book 2 of Josephus' Judean War (translation and commentary). This book deals with a period of enormous consequence: from King Herod's death (4 BCE) to the first phase of the war against Rome (66 CE). The commentary aims at a balance between historical and literary issues.
