New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome

The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (2008), edited by John Peter Oleson, successfully deploys (in thirty-two chapters divided into eight parts) new, critical examinations both of the progress and direction of many debates concerning Greek and Roman technology and engineering. Its 850+ pages cover everything from written sources to architecture to mining and metallurgy, to agriculture, to water power, to war and medical machines, to transport, and much more. Scholars, graduate students, and a serious readership of non-specialists will greatly benefit from its compelling perspectives. The bibliographies at the end of each chapter are invaluable. This handbook sets a very high standard, and it will leave a large and definitive intellectual footprint on a new age of scholarship.