Classical era · 305 BCE – 304 BCE

Siege of Rhodes

The siege of Rhodes in 305–304 BC was one of the most notable sieges of antiquity, when Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to make it abandon its neutrality and end its close relationship with Ptolemy I.

Siege of Rhodes
Siege of Rhodes · Zamonin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
305 BCE – 304 BCE
Where
Rhodes
Era
Classical

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