Philip And Alexander of Macedon : Two Essays in Biography
Philip And Alexander of Macedon : Two Essays in Biography
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The siege which ensued must have been very famous in antiquity for Diodorus to have admitted so detailed an account into his Universal Chronicle.
It marked, in fact, an epoch in military history, for in it was first applied on a large scale the scientific method of assault by simultaneous sap, bombard- ment, and storm, with which the operations of Alexander at Tyre and Gaza, of Demetrius at Rhodes, and of the Romans at Sjrracuse were soon to make the world familiar.^ Clumsy devices as the rams ...and catapults and movable storming-towers may seem to modem science, and hugely laborious as were the works needed to bring them into action — the isthmus, for instance, built through deep water at Tyre, the mounds about the walls of Gaza, the valley filled with stones and trees below the Rock of Chorienes — such expedients were the only ones by which natural citadels could be reduced. In the Propontic cities, it seems, Philip could find no " Macedonizing " traitors or not enough ; at hand was the sea, on which no blockade was ever quite effective in the day of small sailing craft.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The siege which ensued must have been very famous in antiquity for Diodorus to have admitted so detailed an account into his Universal Chronicle.
It marked, in fact, an epoch in military history, for in it was first applied on a large scale the scientific method of assault by simultaneous sap, bombard- ment, and storm, with which the operations of Alexander at Tyre and Gaza, of Demetrius at Rhodes, and of the Romans at Sjrracuse were soon to make the world familiar.^ Clumsy devices as the rams ...and catapults and movable storming-towers may seem to modem science, and hugely laborious as were the works needed to bring them into action — the isthmus, for instance, built through deep water at Tyre, the mounds about the walls of Gaza, the valley filled with stones and trees below the Rock of Chorienes — such expedients were the only ones by which natural citadels could be reduced. In the Propontic cities, it seems, Philip could find no " Macedonizing " traitors or not enough ; at hand was the sea, on which no blockade was ever quite effective in the day of small sailing craft.
What to read after Philip And Alexander of Macedon : Two Essays in Biography?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by D G David George Hogarth to read onlineMoreLess
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