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Inventor, strategist
Demetrius I of Macedon, called Poliorcetes was one of the best generals of those ages but must be remembered also as a brilliant mechanical engineer because he built remarkable war machines. His nickname “Poliorcetes”, in fact, means “besieger” (of towns) and was given to him because of the many successful sieges that he completed. Very probably those victories were obtained also thanks to the prodigious war machines that he was able to build. Among those we must remember, a huge ram that needed about 1000 men to be operated and most of all gigantic siege towers called “helepolis” that means “tacker of cities”; the latter represented an arrival point in the war machine mechanics of those ages.
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variant spelling:
Demetrio I di Macedonia detto Poliorcete
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Curriculum vitae
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* 336 BC - 338 BC
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Macedonia
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born
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307 BC
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Sieges and conquers Munichia and Athens
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306 BC
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Conquers Cyprus
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305 BC
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Rodi
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Besieged Rode but the siege was, this time, unsuccessful.
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302 BC
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Was back in Greece and reinstated the Corinthian league.
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294 BC
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Becomes king of Macedonia
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288 BC
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Was defeated and obliged to leave Macedonia
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† 282 BC - 284 BC
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Greece
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died
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