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Medieval siege weaponry or more commonly, a siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.
Ancient siege engines
The earliest siege engine in Europe was the battering ram, followed by the catapult in ancient Greece. The Spartans used battering rams in the siege of Plataea in 429 BC, but it seems that the Greeks limited their use of siege engines to assault ladders (probably much of the machine, mēchanai, cited by Thucydides must be included in this category), though Peloponnesian forces used something resembling flamethrowers. It has recently been proposed that the Trojan Horse was not, as the legends say, a covert container for stealthy attackers, but rather a large battering ram resembling a horse.
The first Mediterranean people to use advanced siege machinery were the Carthaginians, who used siege towers and battering rams against the Greek colonies of Sicily. These engines influenced the ruler of Syracuse, Dionysius I, who developed a large siege train.
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