Agesistratos (50 BC - 50 BC)

Mechanical and military engineer

Agesistratos was an important mechanical and military engineer of ancient Greece that mostly worked on war machines. He wrote a treatise on the war machines that is lost but it is known that from this treatise Vitruvius took a big part of Agesistratos’ treatise to write his work on the throwing machines that is contained in the detailed section of the X book of De Architectura. Also in the De Architectura, lib. VII, praef. Agesistratos is mentioned as one of the greatest authors of treatises on the mechanics. Agesistratos is also cited by Athenaeus Mechanicus in his Perì mecanematon (=on the mechanics) because of his gratitude to his teacher who taught him, in addition to the relevance of drawing, fundamentals among which the connection between defensive and offensive weapons.

variant spelling:
Agesistratos

Curriculum vitae

1. century BC		Writes a treatise on the war machines
1. century BC		Designs and builts throwing machines
* 1. century BC	Greece (?)	born
† 1. century BC	NN	died

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_23156004.html

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Agesistratos (50 BC - 50 BC)