Thierry Lucas, membre de troisième année, a publié dans Historia 71.2, p. 130-149, un article intitulé Early Greek Catapults and 'First-Generation Artillery Towers'



Abstract :
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.