Eupalinos
Illustration — Tunnel of Eupalinos • Illustration — Entrance of tunnel Eupalinos or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island in the late 6th century BCE. Though the construction of the tunnel has been attributed to the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, it is now considered to be a later construction and having been built between 550 and 530 BCE. In any case, the tunnel was, and is, regarded as a major feat of engineering. The tunnel long conveyed water from a spring near Mount Kastro through the mountain into the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreio). It was the longest one of its time and it still exists.
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Eupalinos
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- 600.
- Occupation
- architect and engineer.
- Known for
- tunnel of Eupalinos.
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Illustration — Tunnel of Eupalinos • Illustration — Entrance of tunnel Eupalinos or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island in the late 6th century BCE. Though the construction of the tunnel has been attributed to the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, it is now considered to be a later construction and having been built between 550 and 530 BCE. In any case, the tunnel was, and is, regarded as a major feat of engineering. The tunnel long conveyed water from a spring near Mount Kastro through the mountain into the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreio). It was the longest one of its time and it still exists.
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Eupalinos born at Megara.
600
Eupalinos died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 119160196, Eupalinos.
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- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500125568, Eupalinos of Megara.
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- 1.Tom Apostol, 2004, p. 33
- 2.Selivanova, Alexandra. Postkonstruktivizm: Vlast' i arkhitektura v 1930-e gody v SSSR. BuksMArt. 245. 2018. 978-5-6040055-4-5.
- 3.Alfred Burns. The Tunnel of Eupalinus and the Tunnel Problem of Hero of Alexandria. Isis. 62. 2. 1971.
- 4.Harry B. Evans. Review of Die Wasserleitung des Eupalinos auf Samos by Hermann J. Kienast. American Journal of Archaeology. 103. 1. 1999.
- 5.Herodotus. Histories. Harvard University Press. 2. 1920.
- 6.Hodge, Trevor A. Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply. Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 0-7156-3171-3.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Olson, Åke. How Eupalinos navigated his way through the mountain: An empirical approach to the geometry of Eupalinos. Anatolia Antiqua. Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes. XX. 25–34. 2012. 10.3406/anata.2012.1323.
- Apostol, Tom. The Tunnel of Samos. Engineering and Science. 67. 1. 30–40. 2004.
- Burns, Alfred. The Tunnel of Eupalinus and the Tunnel Problem of Hero of Alexandria. Isis. 62. 2. 172–185. 1971. 10.1086/350729.
- Goodfield, June. How Was the Tunnel of Eupalinus Aligned?. Isis. 56. 1. 46–55. 1965. 10.1086/349924.
- Goodfield, June. The Tunnel of Eupalinus. Scientific American. 210. 6. 104–110. June 1964. 10.1038/scientificamerican0664-104.
- Kienast, Hermann J. Die Wasserleitung des Eupalinos auf Samos. Habelt (in Komm.). 1995. 3-7749-2713-8.
- Legon, Ronald P. Megara : the political history of a Greek city-state to 336 B.C. Cornell University Press. 1981. 0-8014-1370-2.
- Mitchell, B. M. Herodotus and Samos. Journal of Hellenic Studies. 95. 75–91. 1973. 10.2307/630871.
- Shipley, Graham. A history of Samos, 800-188 BC. Clarendon Press. 1987. 0-19-814868-2.
- Van der Waerden, B. L. Eupalinos and His Tunnel. Isis. 59. 1. 82–83. 1968. 10.1086/350338.
- White, K.D. Greek and Roman technology. Cornell University Press. 1984. 0-8014-1439-3.
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