of Megara, son of Naustrophus, as an architect and engineer, presumably under the tyrant Polycrates, was responsible for the construction of a water supply system for the town of Samos (modern Pythagoreion on the island of Samos) described by Herodotus (3,60) as one of the great feats of Greek engineering; there is no evidence of further work by E. The system that was rediscovered in 1853 consists of four building complexes connected with each other: a fountainhead building situated high in the mountain ( Wells) with a great covered water reservoir, a pipeline c. 840…