Dioklidis

Dioklidis

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Dioclides (about the end of the 4th century BC.). He was born in Abdera. He was an engineer and devised many siege engines. The most famous, the one called "Elepolis" was used, in 305-304 BC, by Demetrius the Besieger, for the conquest of Rhodes. Demetrius the Besieger was the son of Antigonus, general of Alexander the Great.

Dioclides,,(about the end of the 4th century BC.). He was born in Abdera. He was an engineer, and devised many siege engines. The most famous, the one called "Elepolis", was used in 305-304 BC, by Demetrius the Besieger for the conquest of Rhodes. Demetrius the Besieger was the son of Antigonus general of Alexander the Great.

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Dioklidis lived in the ends of the 4th century B.C., the age of successors of Alexander the great. He was a mechanic from Avdira who invented many siege machines. According to texts, Dioklidis constructed ?Eleopolis?, a siege machine that Dimitiros the besieger used during the siege of Rhodes (305-304 B.C.).