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The Siege of Rhodes: When Demetrius Built a City-Killer
In 305 BCE, Demetrius Poliorcetes — son of Antigonus, king of Asia — laid siege to the island city of Rhodes with an army of 40,000 men and the largest siege engine ever built: the Helepolis, a nine-story bronze-plated tower on wheels. This episode follows the year-long siege through the eyes of the Rhodians, whose engineers fought fire with innovation, flooding the ground to bog down the tower and launching counter-mines. We explore how the siege ended not with a conquest but a negotiated peace, and how the Rhodians melted down the abandoned siege equipment to fund the Colossus of Rhodes…
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