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helepolis
Helepolis (, meaning: "Taker of Cities") is the Greek name for a movable siege tower.
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
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Article
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.