Citations:poliorcetics

English citations of poliorcetics

1. (military) The art of siege warfare, namely, that of conducting or resisting a siege; siegecraft.
   • 1992, Lars Karlsson, Fortification Towers and Masonry Techniques in the Hegemony of Syracuse, 405–211 B.C. (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom [Publications of the Swedish Institute in Rome]; 49), Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom [Swedish Institute in Rome], →ISBN, →ISSN, page 11, column 1:

     The grand battles of the Archaic and early Classical periods were replaced by the new art of poliorcetics.