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Headword:
*(elepo/leis
Adler number: epsilon,799
Translated headword: city-destroyers, helepoleis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] machines [for] sacking cities.
Greek Original:*(elepo/leis: mhxanh/mata po/leis porqou=nta.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
The helepolis was a large mobile siege-tower, originating in the late C4 BCE, with the engineers and designers serving King
Demetrius Poliorcetes ("The Besieger"). Marsden 84-5 suggests that the name was suggested by the application of the adjective
e(le/ptolis in tragedy to Helen (
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 689) and Iphigeneia (
Euripides,
Iphigeneia in Aulis 1476, 1511).
Reference:
E.W. Marsden, Greek and Roman Artillery: Technical Treatises (Oxford 1971, reissued 1999)
Keywords: biography; definition; history; imagery; military affairs; science and technology; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 November 2000@08:14:31.
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