Battle Rams to Ballistas: An Exploration on Wartime Technology in the Classical Era
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BASIS Independent Advisor: Ms Heather Odell
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Internship Location: Remote
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Onsite Mentor: Dr. Richard Leese, Conflict Archaeology Researcher and Consultant, CIRCA
Abstract
An Exploration on Wartime Technology in the Classical Era. Throughout my research, I will be combining literature studies of ancient texts from Mediterranean Classics with engineering experiments on technological designs. The literature studies will be using sources from my time period (5th century BCE to 5th century CE) around the Mediterranean, and using a combination of my own language knowledge with English translations to analyze the texts, specifically on details of siege weaponry used in notable wars. With that information, I hope to engineer replicas or smaller-scale models of these technologies to investigate their efficiency more closely.
My final product is meant to be both a comprehensive comparison of ancient texts relating to the technology and time periods I will be researching, and multiple engineered models that can be compared to visualize technological improvements and design changes.
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