Greek and Roman Artillery 399 BC-AD 363
Contributors: Brian Delf (Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: November 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781841766348
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Weapons & equipment; BCE to c 500 CE; History - Military / War; Artillery; History; Siege artillery; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Greece; Ancient - Rome; Military - Weapons; History / Military / General; Greece; Rome
First sentence: The historian Diodorus Siculus writes that, in 399 BC, the catapult (katapeltikon) was invented under the patronage of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse.
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