'The Attack on Rhodes', 1890. The Helepolis siege tower, at the Siege of Rhodes, 305-304 BC in which Demetrius Poliorcetes attempted to make Rhodes abandon neutrality and end its relationship with Ptolemy I. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]