Poseidonius (mechanician)

Poseidonius (or Posidonius/Poseidonios/Posidonios) (Ancient Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) was a Macedonian military engineer of Alexander the Great.

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References
  • Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399 Bc-Ad 363 page 6 By Duncan B. Campbell ISBN 1-84176-605-4
  • Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines = Peri Mēchanēmatōn Page 85 By Athenaeus, David Whitehead, P. H. Blyth ISBN 3-515-08532-7
  • Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by: Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9



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