Book of Donmon Teith

A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.

This book contains translations of all the ancient texts on surveying, including major sources hitherto untapped. It sets out to reconstruct the instruments and

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a c

In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of techn