# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hero-of-byzantium
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:02:41.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hero-of-byzantium"
name: "Hero of Byzantium"
slug: "hero-of-byzantium"
description: "Hero of Byzantium, also Heron of Byzantium or sometimes Hero the Younger, is a name used to refer to the anonymous Byzantine author of two treatises, commonly known as Parangelmata Poliorcetica and Geodesia, composed in the mid-10th century and found in an 11th-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. The first is a poliorketikon, an illustrated manual of siegecraft; the second is a work in practical geometry and ballistics, which makes use of locations around Constantinople to illustrate its points. The manuscript consists of 58 folios and 38 colored illustrations."
tagline: "Name used to refer to the anonymous Byzantine author of two treatises"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/HeroofByzantiumsiegetower.jpg/330px-HeroofByzantiumsiegetower.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.874082666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron_th%C3%A0nh_Byzantium"
    title: "Heron thành Byzantium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%C3%B3_de_Bizanci"
    title: "Heró de Bizanci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%89%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%BF_%CE%92%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Ήρων ο Βυζάντιος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Byzantium"
    title: "Hero of Byzantium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%C3%B3n_de_Bizancio"
    title: "Herón de Bizancio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ron_de_Byzance"
    title: "Héron de Byzance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9r%C3%B3n_(matematikus)"
    title: "Hérón (matematikus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erone_di_Bisanzio"
    title: "Erone di Bisanzio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her%C3%A3o_de_Biz%C3%A2ncio"
    title: "Herão de Bizâncio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2247352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump