Resumen de The ram-tortoise of hegetor of byzantium in the treatise on machines by atheneaus mechanicus.: Some remarks on its reconstruction
In this paper I present a war-machine, the huge ram-tortoise by Hegetor of Byzantium, whose description is to be found in three ancient sources: Athenaeus Mechanicus, Vitruvius and the Anonymous Byzantine. Because of the general difficulty and obscurity of all these texts, reconstructions of the machine have raised a variety of conflicting interpretations. Basing on a new philological analysis of the text of Athenaeus Mechanicus, which is in my opinion the most reliable source about this machine, I present here a new and more authentic reconstruction.