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

Dumbarton Oaks
Denis F. Sullivan
ISBN: 0884022706
price: $35.00  

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 commentray. The text provides illustrations that go beyond traditional ground plans and elevations to represent finished devices in action. The images of the archetype are also reproduced in this edition.