Stratagems. Aqueducts of Rome
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, 1925
- Hardcover
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Reprint of the 1925 Loeb 1st edition in text and translation. A nice copy, bound in a red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and motif to upper. Boards and spine are in very good condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket is in very good condition with minimal wear. All pages are free from notations and markings. Edges are clean. An interesting source for Roman History.
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- Title
- Stratagems. Aqueducts of Rome
- Author
- Frontinus
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass and London
- Publication year
- 1925
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674991923
- ISBN 13
- 9780674991927
- Item weight
- 340 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.79 centimeters width by 10.8 centimeters height by 16.19 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Classics
Frontinus, Sextus Iulius, ca. AD 35–103, was a capable Roman civil officer and military commander. Praetor of the city in 70 and consul in 73 or 74, 98 and 100, he was, about the year 76, sent to Britain as governor. He quelled the Silures of Wales, and began to build a road through their territory; his place was taken by Agricola in 78. In 97 he was given the highly esteemed office of Manager of Aqueducts at Rome. He is known to have been an augur, being succeeded by his friend Pliny the Younger.
The two sides of Frontinus’ public career are reflected in his two surviving works. Stratagems, written after 84, gives examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, for the instruction of Roman officers, in three books; the fourth book is concerned largely with military discipline. The Aqueducts of Rome, written in 97–98, gives some historical details and a description of the aqueducts for the water supply of the city, with laws relating to them. Frontinus aimed at being useful and writes in a rather popular style which is both simple and clear.
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