Funny bit from Thucydides. Spartans besiege Plataea, start to build a ramp to the wall. Plataeans tunnel underneath and steal the ramp earthpic.twitter.com/MPaCoQpXbT
Big takeaway from reading that book was that 5th century Greeks sucked at capturing cities in sieges; probably explains era of city states.
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bit later on though Alexander had no trouble capturing cities IIRC
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Old Greeks did not have catapults or siege towers and so struggled to overcome even Pylos's lame fortification. Turning point came in 399:pic.twitter.com/87dQ1WHIzu
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