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The Siege of Syracuse: Archimedes vs the Roman Republic
In 214 BCE, while the Second Punic War raged across Italy, the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus set his sights on Syracuse, the fabulously wealthy Greek city on Sicily that had allied with Carthage. What followed was one of the most remarkable sieges in ancient history, not just for its duration—over two years—but because the city's defenses were supercharged by the genius of Archimedes. Lucas and Luna explore how the mathematician-scientist devised catastrophic war machines: massive claw-like cranes that lifted Roman ships from the water and smashed them, parabolic mirrors that…
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