Athenaeus Mechnicus, On machines =
peri mēchanēmatōn
by Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Athenaeus Mechanicus' - the surname differentiates him from better-known homonyms - wrote a treatise on Greek siege-machinery. Uniquely in the genre, it combined general cultural erudition, historical survey, and new proposals.
Athenaeus is argued to be a Silician ex-statesman living in Rome in the 20s B.C. and striving, like his contemporary Vitruvius, for imperial patronage there. As regards the treatise itself, it is here evaluated from the perspectives not only of ancient history and philology but also engineering. This highlights the skill of an early-Hellenistic practitioner like Diades, who served Alexander the Great; but it also reveals how, in a later age, workable ideas could no longer be distinguished from wishful thinking - the latter a category to which Athenaeus himself proudly made his own contributions.
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Athenaeus Mechnicus, On machines =: peri mēchanēmatōn
2004, Frank Steiner
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