{"id":55991,"date":"2019-10-21T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/harpax\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T07:36:46","slug":"harpax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/siege-machines-of-ancient-romans\/harpax\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Harpax<\/em> was a Roman siege machine invented by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/marcus-vipsanius-agrippa\/\">Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa<\/a>, which he used during the struggle at sea with Sextus Pompey. It allowed the &#8220;harpoon&#8221; to launch towards the enemy unit, which could then be pulled to the side and boarding carried out.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the machine was first used in 36 BCE at the battle of Naulochus Bay near <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-provinces\/list-of-roman-provinces\/roman-sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <em>harpax<\/em> was not the first machine used by the Romans for boarding. Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wars\/punic-wars\/\">Punic Wars<\/a> it has been known <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/corvus-roman-method-of-fighting-at-sea\/\"><em>corvus<\/em><\/a> &#8211; a ramp equipped with a powerful spike that stuck in the deck of the enemy unit. The advantage of <em>harpax<\/em> was that the catapult was much lighter than the so-called &#8220;crow&#8221;, which was to weigh a ton. What&#8217;s more, <em>harpax<\/em> had a longer range and it was not easy to unload the rope because the metal gripper was long.<\/p>\n<p>The best effect of the new tactics is the fact that Sextus lost 180 of 300 ships during the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harpax was a Roman siege machine invented by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, which he used during the struggle at sea with Sextus Pompey. It allowed the &#8220;harpoon&#8221; to launch towards the enemy unit, which could then be pulled to the side and boarding carried out. According to sources, the machine was first used in 36 BCE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55987,"parent":55997,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55991","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55991\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}