LATE ROMAN PROJECTILE MACHINERY (CARROBALLISTA, CATAPULT, BALLISTA AND ONAGER)
Bannikov Andrei Valer'evich
Saint Petersburg State University
Abstract. In the era of the Late Roman Empire the Romans kept on actively using projectile machinery that had appeared already in the republican period or had been invented during the epoch of the Principate. The Late Roman artillery could operate both in fields and at the siege and defense of towns and fortresses. The largest machines were onagers and ballistas, which could destroy not only the manpower of the enemy but also its siege towers and fortification structures.
Key words and phrases: Римская армия, метательные машины, манубаллиста, карробаллиста, баллиста, катапульта, онагр, the Roman army, projectile machinery, manuballista, carroballista, ballista, catapult, onager
Open the whole article in PDF format. Free PDF-files viewer can be downloaded .
References:
Ammian Martsellin. Rimskaya istoriya / per. Yu. A. Kulakovskogo, A. I. Sonni. SPb.: Aleteiya, 1994. 570 s.
Appian. Rimskie voiny / per. S. A. Zhebeleva, S. P. Kondrat'eva. SPb.: Aleteiya, 1994. 783 s.
Vitruvii Mark Pollion. Desyat' knig ob arkhitekture / per. F. A. Petrovskogo. M.: Izd-vo Vses. akademii arkhitektury, 1936. T. 1. 331 s.
Iosif Flavii. Iudeiskaya Voina / podg. teksta, predisl. i primech. K. A. Revyako, V. A. Fedosika. Minsk, 1991. 512 s.
Kayumov I. F. Kommentarii // Anonim. O voennykh delakh / pod obshch. red. A. K. Nefedkina. SPb.: Aleteiya, 2014. S. 37-197.
Martsial M. Valerii. Epigrammy / per. F. A. Petrovskogo. SPb.: Aleteiya, 1994. 447 s.
Osares F. Vizantiiskaya armiya v kontse VI veka (po "Strategikonu" imperatora Mavrikiya) / per. A. V. Bannikova. SPb.: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo universiteta; Akra, 2007. 141 s.
Prokopii Kesariiskii. Voina s gotami / per. S. P. Kondrat'eva. M.: Arktos-Vika-press, 1996. 336 s.
Flavii Vegetsii Renat. Kratkoe izlozhenie voennogo dela // Grecheskie poliorketiki. Vegetsii / per. S. P. Kondrat'eva. SPb.: Aleteiya, 1996. S. 153-306.
Cascarino G. L’esercito Romano. Armamento e organizzatione. Rimini: Il Cerchio Iniziative Editoriale, 2008. Vol. II. Da Augusto ai Severi. 350 p.
Chevedden P. E. Artillery in Late Antiquity: Prelude to the Middle Ages // The Medieval City under Siege. Suffolk and Rochester, 1995. P. 131-173.
Feug?re M. Les armes des Romains de la R?publique ? l’Antiquit? tardive. Paris: Errance, 2002. 296 p.
Le Bohec Y. L’arm?e Romaine sous le Bas-Empire. Paris: Picard, 2006. 256 p.
Richardot Ph. La fin de l'arm?e romaine (284-476). Paris: Economica, 2005. 410 p.
Southern P., Dixon K. R. The Late Roman Army. L.: B. T. Bastford, Ltd., 1996. 206 p.
Stephenson I. P. Roman Infantry Equipment. The Later Empire. Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, Ltd., 2001. 128 p.
Zosime. Histoire nouvelle: en 3 t. / texte ?tabli et traduit par F. Paschoud. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1979. T. II. 1re partie. 252 r.
Русский
