Greek and Roman artillery
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The Greeks and Romans both made extensive use of artillery for shooting large arrows, bolts or spherical stones or metal balls. Occasionally they also used ranged early thermal weapons. There was heav
Greek non-torsion siege crossbow (gastraphetes)
Hellenistic era artillery tower with arrow shooters (euthytona) and stone throwers (palintona)
Hellenistic era semi-automatic bolt shooter (polybolos)
Roman imperial era 1-talent (75-pounder) ballista used in siege warfare
Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)
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The siege of Rhodes in 305–304 BC was one of the most notable sieges of antiquity, when Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to make it abandon its neutrality and e
The siege of Rhodes