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@file_pinax:document {title: "Diodorus Siculus, Book XX", creator: @diodorus_siculus, language: "grc", subjects: ["Ancient Greece","Ancient Rome","Siege of Rhodes","Agathocles","Demetrius Poliorcetes","Antigonus I Monophthalmus","Ptolemy I Soter","Cassander","Polyperchon","Samnites","Aetolians","Liparaean Islands","Eumelus","Spartacus"]}
@book_xx:event {title: "Diodorus Siculus, Book XX"}
@file_pinax -> documents -> @book_xx:event
@agathocles:person {role: "Tyrant of Syracuse", active: @date_304_BC}
@deinocrates:person {role: "Exiled commander", active: @date_306_BC}
@antigonus_i:person {role: "King of Macedon", active: @date_306_BC}
@demetrius:person {role: "Son of Antigonus I, commander of the siege of Rhodes", active: @date_306_BC}
@pseudostomon:place {description: "Landing place near Gaza"}
@rhodes:place {description: "Island city in the eastern Mediterranean"}
@helepolis:concept {type: "siege tower", storeys: 9, height_cubits: 90}
@siege_of_rhodes:event {description: "Siege of Rhodes by Demetrius", when: @date_306_BC, where: @rhodes}
@liparaean_islands:place {description: "Liparaean Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea"}
@gaza:place {description: "City of Gaza in the Levant"}
@ptolemy_i:person {role: "King of Egypt", active: @date_306_BC}
@cassander:person {role: "Macedonian king", active: @date_306_BC}
@lysimachus:person {role: "Macedonian king", active: @date_306_BC}
@eumelus:person {role: "King of Bosporus", reign_start: @date_304_BC, reign_end: @date_302_BC}
@spartacus:person {role: "Successor king of Bosporus", reign_start: @date_302_BC, reign_end: @date_282_BC}
@bosporus:place {description: "Kingdom on the Cimmerian Bosporus"}
@samnites:organization {region: "Italy"}
@samnite_roman_war:event {description: "War between Samnites and Romans", when: @date_304_BC, where: @italy}
@agathocles_campaign:event {description: "Agathocles’ campaigns in Sicily and the Levant", when: @date_304_BC}
@agathocles_liparaean_incident:event {description: "Agathocles attacks the Liparaean Islands", when: @date_306_BC, where: @liparaean_islands}
@agathocles_deinocrates_conflict:event {description: "Conflict between Agathocles and Deinocrates", when: @date_306_BC}
@ballista:concept {type: "siege engine"}
@catapult:concept {type: "siege engine"}
@ram:concept {type: "battering ram"}
@second_wall:event {description: "Construction of a second defensive wall in Rhodes", when: @date_306_BC, where: @rhodes}
@athenagoras:person {role: "Milesian commander employed by Demetrius"}
@damophilus:person {role: "Commander of guardships"}
@phila:person {role: "Wife of Demetrius"}
@alexandria:place {description: "City of Alexandria in Egypt"}
@pasiphilus:person {role: "General of Syracuse"}
@book_xx:event -> covers -> @siege_of_rhodes:event
@siege_of_rhodes:event -> commander -> @demetrius
@siege_of_rhodes:event -> opponent -> @rhodes
@demetrius -> built -> @helepolis:concept {notes: "Massive siege tower used at Rhodes"}
@demetrius -> used -> @ballista:concept
@demetrius -> used -> @catapult:concept
@demetrius -> used -> @ram:concept
@demetrius -> besieged -> @rhodes:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@antigonus_i -> sent -> @demetrius:person {mission: "lead fleet against Rhodes"}
@demetrius -> landed_at -> @pseudostomon:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@agathocles -> attacked -> @liparaean_islands:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@agathocles -> attacked -> @gaza:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@agathocles -> fought -> @deinocrates:person {when: @date_306_BC}
@agathocles_campaign:event -> involved -> @agathocles:person
@agathocles_liparaean_incident:event -> location -> @liparaean_islands:place
@agathocles_deinocrates_conflict:event -> participants -> [@agathocles, @deinocrates]
@ptolemy_i -> sent_supplies -> @rhodes:place {grain_measures: 300000, when: @date_306_BC}
@cassander -> sent_troops -> @rhodes:place {troops: 1000, when: @date_306_BC}
@lysimachus -> sent_troops -> @rhodes:place {troops: 5000, when: @date_306_BC}
@eumelus -> ruled -> @bosporus:place {reign_start: @date_304_BC, reign_end: @date_302_BC}
@spartacus -> succeeded -> @eumelus:person {reign_start: @date_302_BC, reign_end: @date_282_BC}
@samnite_roman_war:event -> participants -> [@samnites, @rome]
@samnite_roman_war:event -> occurred -> @date_304_BC
@second_wall:event -> built_by -> @rhodes:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@demetrius -> captured -> @athenagoras:person {when: @date_306_BC}
@demetrius -> captured -> @damophilus:person {when: @date_306_BC}
@demetrius -> captured -> @phila:person {when: @date_306_BC}
@phila -> sent_clothing -> @rhodes:place {clothing_type: "royal robes"}
@demetrius -> sailed_from -> @alexandria:place {when: @date_306_BC}
@demetrius -> attacked -> @rhodes:place {method: "siege engines"}
@agathocles -> sent_envoy -> @deinocrates:person
@deinocrates -> betrayed -> @agathocles:person
@deinocrates -> appointed_general_by -> @agathocles:person
@agathocles -> sent_envoy -> @pasiphilus:person
@pasiphilus -> role -> @agathocles:person
@samnites:organization -> fought -> @rome:place {war: @samnite_roman_war:event}Click to expand and load individual components
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