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helepolis
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Vinony's link graph records 34 inbound references to helepolis, and connects out to Greek, Tbilisi and International Standard Book Number.
It sits within the topics Ancient Greek military terminology, Colossus of Rhodes and Hellenistic military engineering.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Helepolis (Taker of Cities)
- Weapon.image
- File:Helepolis.png
- Weapon.caption
- A Helepolis-like Siege Engine showing catapults, stairs and movement capstan.
- Weapon.origin
- Ancient Greece
- Weapon.type
- Siege tower
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.designer
- Polyidus of Thessaly
- Weapon.crew
- 3,400
- Weapon.armour
- Iron plates
- Weapon.primary_armament
- 2× catapults 4× catapults 10× catapults
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- 4× dart throwers
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- siege tower
- Country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- Designed by
- Polyidus of Thessaly
- Image
- Helepolis.png
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Siege of Rhodes
- Later use
- See also
- References
- External links
Helepolis (, meaning: "Taker of Cities") is the Greek name for a 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “helepolis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.