Helepolis
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Helepolis is the Greek name for a movable siege tower.
Model of a Helepolis siege tower, Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum
Naval helepolis. Two quinqueremes having a helepolis on their decks.
Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)
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The siege of Rhodes in 305–304 BC was one of the most notable sieges of antiquity, when Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to make it abandon its neutrality and e
Helepolis
…movable siege tower. The most famous was that invented by Polyidus of Thessaly, and improved by Demetrius I of Macedon and Epimachus of Athens, for the Siege of Rhodes (305 BC). Descriptions of it were written by Diodorus Siculus, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus. The Helepolis was essentially a large tapered…
The siege of Rhodes