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    The Helepolis". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies v.39. Retrieved 2009-10-02. Helepolis at LacusCurtius Ancient Greek war machines: The Helepolis, a fortified...
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    catapults or onagers and cannons. The largest of them all was the ancient Helepolis, a superheavy siege tower from ancient Greece that was 40 meters tall...
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    capable machines of war and were put to use by the Roman military. The helepolis was a transportation vehicle used to besiege cities. The vehicle had wooden...
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  • Retrieved 24 May 2017. Article by James Yates, M.A., F.R.S. (6 August 2012). "Helepolis - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875"...
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    The biggest siege towers of antiquity, such as the Hellenistic Greek Helepolis (meaning "The Taker of Cities" in Greek) of the siege of Rhodes in 305...
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    engines, including a 180 ft (55 m) battering ram and a siege tower called Helepolis that weighed 360,000 lb (163,293 kg). Despite this engagement, in 304...
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    he had Epimachos of Athens build a massive 160 ton siege tower named Helepolis, filled with artillery. The term Hellenistic is a modern invention; the...
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    engines. Demetrius even built the now notable siege tower, known as the Helepolis, in his attempt to take the city. The citizens of Rhodes were successful...
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  • Zimmer, Gary. "1500-ton Self-Propelled 80cm Gun". Kaushik Patowary. "Helepolis: The Failed War Machine From Which Rose a Wonder of The Ancient World"...
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  • (disambiguation) City of the Sun (disambiguation) Helios (disambiguation) Helepolis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Heliopolis...
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  • weapons platforms were chariots, followed by war wagons. The ancient Greek Helepolis, a massive siege tower which mounted catapults, could also be considered...
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    to their conquest of Appiaria in 587. The word used for the machine is helepolis, which does not indicate a specific siege engine. It has been variously...
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    evolution that led to impressive machines, like the Demetrius Poliorcetes' Helepolis (or "Taker of Cities") of 304 BC: nine stories high and plated with iron...
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    JSTOR 1291833. Dennis, George (1998). "Byzantine Heavy Artillery: The Helepolis". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (39). Denny, Mark (2007), Ingenium:...
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    long, requiring 1000 men to operate it; and a wheeled siege tower named "Helepolis" (or "Taker of Cities") which stood 125 feet (38 m) tall and 60 feet (18 m)...
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  • ingenuity in devising a new siege engine: a wheeled siege tower named Helepolis (or "Taker of Cities"), which stands 40 meters tall and 20 meters wide...
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    Osprey Publishing Dennis, George (1998). "Byzantine Heavy Artillery: The Helepolis". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (39). Bachrach, David S. (2006)...
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  • in the campaigns of Alexander the Great. Polyidus was the inventor of Helepolis. Campbell, p. 4. "On campaign, Phillip was accompanied by engineers, one...
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    Polyidus of Thessaly developed a very large movable siege tower, the helepolis, as early as 340 BC, and Greek forces used such structures in the Siege...
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    with Takht-i-Suleiman. ^ f: That was the first known usage of the term helepolis to describe the trebuchet, though earlier uses may be attested to in Emperor...
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    was restored in 1259 when Michael Palaeologos besieged the city using helepolis siege engines The fortress continued to play an important role until the...
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  • attributed to Zopyrus of Tarentum are termed gastraphetes. He also describes helepolis (siege tower) built by Poseidonios the Macedonian and the sambuca built...
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  • of years later, and the design for the Helepolis in particular had effects on future designs; the term Helepolis endured for many centuries after the "original"...
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  • ISBN 978-92-3-103211-0. Dennis, George T. (1998), "Byzantine Heavy Artillery: the Helepolis" (PDF), Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 39, Duke University: 99–115...
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    August 21, 2005 2x02 Warfare Warfare technology is examined, including the Helepolis, a square fortified tower on wheels; and "Greek Fire," an incendiary liquid...
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  • captivity. Although he had brought his siege engines, including his famous Helepolis, "Taker of Cities", the siege went slowly, and fierce Theban resistance...
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    conspicuous engines of war were stone-throwing trebuchets, often termed helepolis 'city-takers'; both the man-powered and the more powerful and accurate...
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    with thousands of soldiers and even siege engines (that the source calls helepolis). According to this source, the Romans did not try to aid the besieged...
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    around 475 BC to 330 BC, with the ancient Greeks, who wore hair wreaths. Helepolis: Greek siege tower. Heron's fountain: Heron's fountain is a hydraulic...
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    protect them from missiles, and a massive, nine-level mobile siege tower or helepolis, equipped with catapults and ballistae on each level, operated by a crew...
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