Athenaeus Mechnicus, On machines =

peri mēchanēmatōn

by Athenaeus of Naucratis

2004 236 pages eng

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 t…