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Often appears with: plataea · pausanias · monumental statues as trophies · monarchy and royal succession · history and the writing of history · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
Vitruvius continues with Spartan war stories, describing Pausanias at Plataea and how Greek victory led to monuments showing Persians supporting entablatures, and then turns to philosophy’s moral and practical role for architects.
or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers. 8. Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are …