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ID: 500125568
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125568

 

Record Type: Person
Eupalinos of Megara (Greek master builder and engineer, active ca. 530-ca. 520 BCE)

Note: Noted as the designer of the water-supply tunnel on Samos, built ca. 530-ca. 520 BCE, for which workers started digging on either side of a large hill and successfully met in near perfect alignment in the middle, considered a marvel or surveying at the time. Greek architect, born first half of the 6th cent. B.C.

Names:
Eupalinos of Megara (preferred,V)
Eupalinus (V)
Eupalinos, of Megara (V)
of Megara Eupalinos (V)
Eupalinus, of Megara (V)

Nationalities:
Greek (preferred)
Ancient Greek
Megarian

Roles:
master builder (preferred)
surveyor
engineer
architect

Gender: male

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Eupalinos of Megara (I)

Biographies:
(Greek master builder and engineer, active ca. 530-ca. 520 BCE) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Greek architect, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Eupalinos of Megara ........ [VP Preferred]
......................................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) "Greece, ancient: Architecture: Measurement," accessed 17 October 2006
Eupalinos, of Megara ........ [AVERY Preferred]
........................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
Eupalinus ........ [VP]
.....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 16 October 2006
Eupalinus, of Megara ........ [AVERY]
........................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
of Megara Eupalinos ........ [AVERY, VP]
......................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [AVERY, VP]
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) "Greece, ancient: Architecture: Measurement," accessed 17 October 2006; accessed 16 October 2006
....................  RIBA Library Online Catalogue, Nov.12, 2000
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 17 October 2006
.......... RIBA Library Online Catalogue, Nov.12, 2000
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