Philo Mechanicus On Sieges Translated with Introduction and Commentary Historia Einzelschriften 1st Edition by David Whitehead ISBN 3515113444 9783515113441

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ISBN 10: 3515113444

ISBN 13: 9783515113441 

Author: David Whitehead

Towards the end of the second century BCE Philo of Byzantium, a.k.a. Philo Mechanicus, wrote what is held to be the first Engineering Compendium, in eight or nine parts. Three concern warfare, viewed theoretically: a technical treatise on catapult-design (Belopoiika), and two associated ones which survive only in (lengthy) epitome. United here under the title On Sieges, Paraskeuastika and Poliorketika address broader aspects of siege-warfare. First and primarily, withstanding a siege is the objective: cities must design and build towers, walls and gates in the most suitable way, stockpile and manage food and other strategic commodities, and resist a direct assault by men and machines. Then more briefly the perspective is reversed, with those who wish to conduct such an attack shown how to do so successfully.

This is the work’s first-ever complete translation into English, preceded by an Introduction on the writer and his work. The  Commentary – the first since Garlan’s in 1972 – aims to elucidate the multifarious matters arising: issues of text, translation, vocabulary, idiom; themes in the poliorcetic genre; archaeological and other substantive contexts.

Table of contents: 

1. Preface

2. Conventions and Abbreviations

3. Measures, Weights, Volumes

4. Introduction

5. Internal (Dis)Organisation of the Treatise

6. Some Textual Issues

7. Text and Translation

8. Commentary

9. Part A: Fortification(s)

10. Part B: Provisioning and Preparation

11. Part C: Defensive Measures

12. Part D: Attacking Measures

13. Appendix 1: Vitruvius, de architectura 1.5.1–8

14. Appendix 2: Athenaeus Mechanicus 15.13–18.7 (and Vitruvius 10.14.1–3)

15. Appendix 3: Philo-derived passages in the Parangelmata Poliorketika

16. Appendix 4: The walls of Skotoussa

17. Appendix 5: Granaries and grain-preservation in Geoponica 2.27–30

18. Gazeteer

19. Bibliography

20. Index of Passages Cited

21. Greek Index (Select)

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