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Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 1.1.3


nan3. In architecture, as in other arts, two considerations must be constantly kept in view; namely, the intention, and the matter used to express that intention: but the intention is founded on a conviction that the matter wrought will fully suit the purpose; he, therefore, who is not familiar with both branches of the art, has no pretension to the title of the architect. An architect should be ingenious, and apt in the acquisition of knowledge. Deficient in either of these qualities, he cannot be a perfect master. He should be a good writer, a skilful draftsman, versed in geometry and optics, expert at figures, acquainted with history, informed on the principles of natural and moral philosophy, somewhat of a musician, not ignorant of the sciences both of law and physic, nor of the motions, laws, and relations to each other, of the heavenly bodies.


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1. Herodotus, Histories, 7.166 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.166. They add this tale too—that Gelon and Theron won a victory over Amilcas the Carchedonian in Sicily on the same day that the Greeks defeated the Persian at Salamis. This Amilcas was, on his father's side, a Carchedonian, and a Syracusan on his mother's and had been made king of Carchedon for his virtue. When the armies met and he was defeated in the battle, it is said that he vanished from sight, for Gelon looked for him everywhere but was not able to find him anywhere on earth, dead or alive.
2. Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.5.25 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6.5.25. But when people had come from Caryae telling of the dearth of men, promising that they would themselves act as guides, and bidding the Thebans slay them if they were found to be practising any deception, and when, further, some of the Perioeci appeared, asking the Thebans to come to their aid, engaging to revolt if only they would show themselves in the land, and saying also that even now the Perioeci when summoned by the Spartiatae were refusing to go and help them — as a result, then, of hearing all these reports, in which all agreed, the Thebans were won over, and pushed in with their own forces by way of Caryae, while the Arcadians went by way of Oeum, in Sciritis.
3. Cicero, Pro Archia, 19 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

19. sit igitur, iudices, sanctum apud vos, humanissimos homines, hoc poetae nomen quod nulla umquam barbaria violavit. Saxa atque atque Quintil. ( quinque locis ): et codd. solitudines voci voci Quintil. : voce codd. respondent, bestiae saepe immanes cantu flectuntur atque consistunt; nos instituti rebus optimis non poetarum voce moveamur? Homerum Colophonii civem esse dicunt suum, Chii suum Chii suum Chii sibi P. Thomas vindicant, Salaminii repetunt, Smyrnaei vero suum esse confirmant itaque etiam delubrum eius eius ei Lambinus in oppido dedicaverunt, permulti alii praeterea pugt inter se atque contendunt. ergo illi alienum, quia poeta fuit, post mortem etiam expetunt; nos hunc vivum qui et qui et b2k : qui ab1 : et qui cett. voluntate et legibus noster est repudiamus repudiabimus Lag. 9, Naugerius (1), praesertim cum omne olim studium atque omne ingenium contulerit Archias ad populi Romani gloriam laudemque celebrandam? nam et Cimbricas res adulescens attigit et ipsi illi C. Mario qui durior ad haec studia videbatur iucundus fuit.
4. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.2.1-1.2.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.2.1.  In general, then, it is because of that commemoration of goodly deeds which history accords men that some of them have been induced to become the founders of cities, that others have been led to introduce laws which encompass man's social life with security, and that many have aspired to discover new sciences and arts in order to benefit the race of men. And since complete happiness can be attained only through the combination of all these activities, the foremost meed of praise must be awarded to that which more than any other thing is the cause of them, that is, to history. 1.2.2.  For we must look upon it as constituting the guardian of the high achievements of illustrious men, the witness which testifies to the evil deeds of the wicked, and the benefactor of the entire human race. For if it be true that the myths which are related about Hades, in spite of the fact that their subject-matter is fictitious, contribute greatly to fostering piety and justice among men, how much more must we assume that history, the prophetess of truth, she who is, as it were, the mother-city of philosophy as a whole, is still more potent to equip men's characters for noble living! 1.2.3.  For all men, by reason of the frailty of our nature, live but an infinitesimal portion of eternity and are dead throughout all subsequent time; and while in the case of those who in their lifetime have done nothing worthy of note, everything which has pertained to them in life also perishes when their bodies die, yet in the case of those who by their virtue have achieved fame, their deeds are remembered for evermore, since they are heralded abroad by history's voice most divine.
5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.5.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.5.1.  In order, therefore, to remove these erroneous impressions, as I have called them, from the minds of many and to substitute true ones in their room, I shall in this Book show who the founders of the city were, at what periods the various groups came together and through what turns of fortune they left their native countries.
6. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 5.772-5.1457 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

7. Strabo, Geography, 1.1.23 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.1.23. Having already compiled our Historical Memoirs, which, as we conceive, are a valuable addition both to political and moral philosophy, we have now determined to follow it up with the present work, which has been prepared on the same system as the former, and for the same class of readers, but more particularly for those who are in high stations of life. And as our former production contains only the most striking events in the lives of distinguished men, omitting trifling and unimportant incidents; so here it will be proper to dismiss small and doubtful particulars, and merely call attention to great and remarkable transactions, such in fact as are useful, memorable, and entertaining. In the colossal works of the sculptor we do not descend into a minute examination of particulars, but look principally for perfection in the general ensemble. This is the only method of criticism applicable to the present work. Its proportions, so to speak, are colossal; it deals in the generalities and main outlines of things, except now and then, when some minor detail can be selected, calculated to be serviceable to the seeker after knowledge, or the man of business. We now think we have demonstrated that our present undertaking is one that requires great care, and is well worthy of a philosopher.
8. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 1.1.1, 1.1.5-1.1.10, 1.1.12, 2.1.5, 6.1.11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aemulatio Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 2
aetiology Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
alberti, leon battista, author of de re aedificatoria Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 2
amplificatio Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102
anthropomorphism, in architecture Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
architect, education Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
architect Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
architect / architecture, ancient Green, Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (2014) 110, 112
architecture, embodied by ideal practitioner Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
argumentum Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
ars Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
artemidorus of ephesus Konig and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239; König and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239
atticus, liber annalis Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 85
atticus Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
auctoritas Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
augustus, dedicatee of de architectura Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
augustus / octavian Green, Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (2014) 110
barbarians Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
body, metaphor for speech and text, greek Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
body, metaphor for speech and text Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
body Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103, 132
carya, historicity of sack Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 85
carya Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
caryatids, function in de architectura Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
caryatids Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 85
ciceromarcus tullius cicero, brutus Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
ciceromarcus tullius cicero, orator Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 2
clitarchus Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
coriolanus Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
corpus architecturae Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
cremera Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
de architectura, and greek knowledge Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
de architectura, universalizing Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
de architectura (vitruvius), purpose of Green, Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (2014) 110, 112
de architectura (vitruvius) Green, Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (2014) 110, 112
definition Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
demonstrate and explain Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
diodorus siculus Konig and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239; König and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239; Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
diognetus rhodian architect Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
etymology Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102
exempla Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71, 85
fiction, in historiography Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
helepolis Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
herodotus Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 103
history and historiography, and architect Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
history and historiography, fiction in Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
history and historiography, plurality of Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
history and historiography, synchronism in Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
impostors Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
inperiti and inperitia Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
knowledge, common bond Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
koraiof erechtheum Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
livy Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
maiestas Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
medicine' König and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239
medicine Konig and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239
memoria posteris tradere formula Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
monumentum Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102
natura, and truth Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
nature Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
oikonomia Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
omniscience and omnicompetence Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
oratory, c Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
pais, ettore Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
persians Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
plataea Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71, 84, 85
praeceptaprecepts Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102
pytheos, qualis homo talis oratio Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 2
rationem redde rerender account Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
renewal and renovation Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71
res subiectae subject matter, of the orator Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
res subiectae subject matter Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
res verae, in painting Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
rhetoric Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
salamis Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
scientia Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
size Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
sparta Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 71, 84, 85
strabo, geography Konig and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239; König and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239
strabo Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
stratocles Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
themistocles Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84
truth Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 85
utilitasutility Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
vitruvius, and cicero Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
vitruvius, and history Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
vitruvius, auctoritas Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
vitruvius, doubts about reliability Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 85, 102, 103
vitruvius, knowledge and education Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 132
vitruvius, reception Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 2
vitruvius Konig and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239; König and Wiater, Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue (2022) 239
vitruvius (m. vitruvius pollio), status as architect Green, Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (2014) 112
volumina Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 102, 103
xenophon Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 84, 85