poliorcetica造句

• As with much Byzantine literature, the " poliorcetica " tend to be compendia of earlier guides illustrated with Biblical and Classical anecdotes.
• Although not technically " poliorcetica ", other Byzantine military texts such as Kekaumenos's " Taktika " often include sections or chapters dealing with siege operations.
• The military sections " Belopoeica " and " Poliorcetica " are extant in Greek, detailing missiles, the construction of fortresses, provisioning, attack and defence, as are fragments of " Isagoge " and " Automatopoeica " ( ed.
• Composed as they were during the era immediately antecedent to the arrival of heavy artillery, the " poliorcetica " tend to focus less upon large machines and more upon techniques for bringing men close to fortifications, as well as on ways of undermining these once attacking forces are positioned.
• The " Parangelmata Poliorcetica " was an adaptation of an earlier ( ) poliorcetic manual of Apollodorus of Damascus, but in place of the static, two-dimensional diagrams of that work, the Byzantine author used a three-dimensional perspective and scaled human figures to clarify the passages.
• "' Hero of Byzantium "'( or "'Heron of Byzantium "'or sometimes "'Hero the Younger "') is a name used to refer to the anonymous Byzantine author of two treatises, commonly known as " Parangelmata Poliorcetica " and " Geodesia ", composed in the mid-10th century and found in an 11th-century manuscript in the Vatican Library ( Vaticanus graecus 1605 ).