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2022
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- doi: 10.25162/historia-2022-0005
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Thierry Lucas, « Early Greek Catapults and ‘First-Generation Artillery Towers’ », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10.25162/historia-2022-0005
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This article is intended to offer a discussion on the origins of the catapult in the Greek world. The discussion focusses on one problematic point, non-torsion artillery and its distribution. There are good reasons to think that such early catapults remained a kind of experimental weapon; it is only after the invention of torsion artillery, i. e. after the middle of the fourth century BC, that the catapult became a common weapon, widespread throughout the Greek world. As a result, the study calls into question the typology of artillery towers defined by Ober and its chronological implications.