Hellenistic Fortifications from the Aegean to the EuphratesClarendon Press, 1997 - 230 pages The fortifications built around Greek cities for their defence and protection are among the most impressive of ancient remains. In breadth and detail Anthony McNicoll analysed and illustrated over a score of fortified sites on the basis of personal knowledge and inspection, ranging from Ephesus and Assos on the Aegean to Dura Europus on the Euphrates, and spanning the development from the fourth-century Mausolean great circuit of Halicarnassus to the first-century cross-wall at Miletus. The individual studies provide a valuable publication of some little known material and support not only a technical and architectural history, but an explanation of what was built in broader terms. Anthony McNicoll's Oxford doctoral thesis `Hellenistic Fortifications from Aegean to the Euphrates' was much acknowledged by A. W. Lawrence (the author of Greek Aims in Fortification, OUP 1979), and has been highly praised by a number of scholars who have consulted it. Revised here for publication, it has been updated in the light of recent scholarship in a final chapter by N. P. Milner. |
Contents
The Hecatomnids of Caria | 15 |
The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare | 46 |
The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare | 75 |
Philip V at Iasus | 106 |
The Attalids and Southern Asia Minor | 118 |
The West Coast in the Second and First Centuries | 157 |
Isolated Towers and Forts | 171 |
Sites with Fortifications of more than One Period | 182 |
Conclusions and Recent Developments | 207 |
Amos | 224 |
Common terms and phrases
access steps acropolis Aims Alabanda Alinda Anab Antigonus Antiochus arch Architecture Arrian artillery ASAt ashlar Asia Minor Assos attack Bean Bean/Cook built Cadyanda Caria catapult Caunus Ceramus circuit Cnidus Colophon construction crenellations cross wall curtains defences Diod Dura east wall engine Ephesus Erythrae excavations face flank floor fortifications fourth century Garlan garrison gateway Gerkan Greek half-round tower Halicarnassus hammer-faced headers and stretchers Hecatomnid height Hellenistic Heracleia Iasus Ibid Inschriften inscription isodomic ashlar Krischen Labraunda land wall Latmus Lawrence Lysimachus Magie Maier main gate Marsden masonry Mausolus Maussollus McNicoll McNicoll's Miletus Myndus Oenoanda Pamphylia Pednelissus pentagonal tower Perge Philon PLATE polygonal posterns Priene probably Recherches Rhodian Roman round tower sally-ports sector Seleucia Pieria side siege Sillyum slits stone storey Strabo surviving Teos Termessus third century tion wall-line wallwalk west wall wide width Winter δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τῶν