... Augustus. During the later part of the first century BCE Vitruvius wrote De architectura libri decem a ten-volume treatise, which served as a handbook for Roman architects. Vitruvius was not the first to write about architecture, but all earlier texts on the subject have been lost. The earlier Greek and ... of individual buildings or dealt with specific problems, such as the proportions of temples. For the subsequent history of the architectural theory, Vitruvius's ten books can and must be taken as a whole. The work's patchwork character and erratic terminology cannot be ignored; howev...

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