This book reconsiders the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture . The ideal, "Vitruvian" man is not simply an architect in the narrow sense. He is a builder of Augustus' legacy, and the archetype for a distinctly imperial ethos of civic expertise.
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This book reconsiders the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture . The ideal, "Vitruvian" man is not simply an architect in the narrow sense. He is a builder of Augustus' legacy, and the archetype for a distinctly imperial ethos of civic expertise.
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