Diades of Pella
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Diades of Pella
(Greek
:Διάδης Πελλαίος), (ο Πολιορκητής, the Besieger), was a Thessalian inventor of many siege engines, student of Philip II
's military engineer Polyidus of Thessaly
.
He lived in the 4th century BC. Diades accompanied Alexander the Great in his campaigns to the East. He constructed (or improved) movable towers, battering ram
s, scaling engines used to scale walls and battering cranes used for the destruction of city walls.
Diades was known as the man who took Tyre
with Alexander.
He also wrote a treatise on machinery. (Vitruvius
vii, introduction)
Pella
Pella , an ancient Greek city located in Pella Prefecture of Macedonia in Greece, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.-Etymology:...
(Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
:Διάδης Πελλαίος), (ο Πολιορκητής, the Besieger), was a Thessalian inventor of many siege engines, student of Philip II
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon "friend" + ἵππος "horse" — transliterated ; 382 – 336 BC), was a king of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was the father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.-Biography:...
's military engineer Polyidus of Thessaly
Polyidus of Thessaly
Polyidus of Thessaly was an ancient Greek military engineer of Philip, who made improvements in the covered battering-ram during Philip's siege of Byzantium in 340 BC...
.
He lived in the 4th century BC. Diades accompanied Alexander the Great in his campaigns to the East. He constructed (or improved) movable towers, battering ram
Battering ram
A battering ram is a siege engine originating in ancient times and designed to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their wooden gates...
s, scaling engines used to scale walls and battering cranes used for the destruction of city walls.
Diades was known as the man who took Tyre
Siege of Tyre
The Siege of Tyre was a siege of the city of Tyre, a strategic coastal base on the Mediterranean Sea, orchestrated by Alexander the Great in 332 BC during his campaigns against the Persians. The Macedonian army was unable to capture the city through conventional means because it was on an island...
with Alexander.
He also wrote a treatise on machinery. (Vitruvius
Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ....
vii, introduction)