![]() ![]() The most impressive was the Helepolis, a moving armored fortress bristling with catapults and ballistae used by Demetrios Poliorcetes at the siege of Rhodes. ![]() The same could be said of some of the most impressive war machine ever devised, assault towers and armored battering rams. Hellenistic warfare (after the death of Alexander the Great) also carried in Europe the concept of armored elephants (first encountered in India and adopted by the Diadochi) used a bit like tanks would have been used on a modern battlefield. It can be said that with the Hoplites, the Greek invented the concept of a heavily armored infantry that prevailed over the Persians, and the XVIIIth pike and shot formations came in a straight line from the Macedonian phalanx concept. These are all part of the mythical ancient history that belongs now to classical education and knowledge throughout Europe. Of course, we will not go into depth with ancient Greek history, as rival city states almost invented ancient warfare in this part of the Mediterranean, the Trojan wars, the classic era, the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta, or the rise of Alexander the Great. ![]()
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