Diades of Pella

Diades of Pella (Greek:Διάδης Πελλαίος), (ο Πολιορκητής, the Besieger), was a Thessalian^[1] 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 rams, 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.^[2] He also wrote a treatise on machinery. (Vitruvius vii, introduction)

Notes

1. ^ Who's who in the Age of Alexander the Great
2. ^ Alexander the Great by W. W. Tarn

External links

• Technology museum of Thessalonica

Persondata
Name	Diades Of Pella
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death