Circa 30 C.E.-104 C.E.
City Official

Technical Writing. Sextus Julius Frontinus served successfully as a governor and general in Britain during the 70s C.E. In the more difficult days under the Emperor Domitian he turned to technical writing. His book on military strategy, Strategemata, survives, which collects techniques employed by military commanders throughout history, including some relatively recent ones from his own day. Only parts of his work on land surveying survive, which Covered measuring, categorizing, marking of land, along with resolution of property disputes. His most famous and popular work, however, is De aquis urbis Romae (The Water Supply of Rome). In it he collects and synthesizes a vast amount of technical information about building, administering, and maintaining one of Rome's architectural wonders the aqueduct system. Included among his topics is keeping the system secure from those who tried to build illegal siphons...