Machiny miotające w kampaniach Aleksandra Macedońskiego
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Keywords

Alexander the Great
Vitruvius
catapults
oxybeles
siege engine
Tyre

How to Cite

Suszczenia, Paweł. 2024. “Machiny miotające W Kampaniach Aleksandra Macedońskiego”. In Gremium. Studies in History, Culture and Politics, no. 17 (March), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.61826/ig.vi17.420.

Abstract

The text is a polemic with the discourse image of the development stage of catapults in the times of Alexander the Great. This image assumes the existence of developed throwing machines capable of destroying fortifications at the time in question. However, the analysis of the descriptions of the use of siege machines contained in the text, undermines this picture, and at the same time proposes solutions to several problematic issues.

https://doi.org/10.61826/ig.vi17.420
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