Diades of Pella (Ancient Greek: Διάδης Πελλαίος Diadis Pelleos), surnamed the "Besieger" (Πολιορκητής Poliorkitis), was a Thessalian[1] inventor of many siege engines, student of Philip II's military engineer Polyidus of Thessaly.
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".
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