ABSTRACT
Greek engineering and technology are generally undervalued, sometimes to thepoint of being unknown, forgotten, or ignored, in the minds and writing of ancient historians. For example, architecture can be discussed without any reference to how the buildings were constructed; trade can be discussed without any reference to how goods were manufactured; the economy can be discussed without any reference to how silver coins were produced. Our understanding of Greek society is incomplete if we know nothing of the methods by which the Greeks solved significant problems of the ordinary everyday variety, like finding and distributing drinking water, as well as of the rarer kind, like temple building.
