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Headword:
Ἑλεπόλεις
Adler number: epsilon,799
Translated headword: city-destroyers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Machines [for] sacking cities.
Greek Original:Ἑλεπόλεις: μηχανήματα πόλεις πορθοῦντα.
Note:
Large mobile siege-towers, originating in the late C4 BCE, with the engineers and designers serving King Demetrios Poliorketes ("The Besieger"). Marsden 84-5 suggests that the name was suggested by the application of the adjective
ἑλέπτολις in tragedy to
Helen (
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 689) and Iphigeneia (
Euripides,
Iphigeneia in Aulis 1476, 1511).
E.W. Marsden, Greek and Roman Artillery: Technical Treatises (Oxford 1971, reissued 1999)
Keywords: biography; definition; history; imagery; military affairs; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 November 2000@08:14:31.
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