Vitruvius

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 90–20 BCE) served as a Roman military engineer under Julius Caesar and later Octavian/Augustus, dedicating his influential treatise *De architectura* to the latter. The treatise collated knowledge from unnamed Hellenistic sources and presented ideas on architecture, engineering and other topics. His work, while significant, drew from archaic methods and influenced later readers, sometimes misleadingly.