07-24-2006, 11:36 PM
According to Diodorus of Sicily, the pentere was invented by Dionysius I of Syracuse and used for the first time during the attack on Motya. Then, we read nothing about penteres, until the age of Alexander. I can imagine two explanations:
(a) Dionysius's date is wrong and the pentere was invented later;
(b) the obvious theater where penteres would have been used, the Aegean (Corinthian War, Third Sacred War etc), was too impoverished to afford building penteres.
Anyone any thoughts?
(a) Dionysius's date is wrong and the pentere was invented later;
(b) the obvious theater where penteres would have been used, the Aegean (Corinthian War, Third Sacred War etc), was too impoverished to afford building penteres.
Anyone any thoughts?
