Polyidus of Thessaly
4th c. BCE Greek military engineer
About Polyidus of Thessaly
Born 400 BC. Polyidus of Thessaly was a military engineer.
Polyidus of Thessaly (also Polyides, Polydus; , , English translation: "much beauty", from polus, "many, much" and eidos, "form, appearance, beauty") was an ancient Greek military engineer of Philip, who made improvements in the covered battering-ram (testudo arietaria, poliorceticus krios) during Philip's siege of Byzantium in 340 BC. His students were Diades of Pella and Charias, who served in the campaigns of Alexander the Great. Polyidus was the inventor of Helepolis.
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4th c. BCE Greek military engineer
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Polyidus of Thessaly was born in 400 BC in Ancient Thessaly.
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Polyidus of Thessaly was a military engineer.
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