Water Distribution in Ancient Rome
Author: Harry B. Evans
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780472084463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the water system that made ancient Rome possible
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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
Author: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1469621290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present.
Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome
Author: Peter J. Aicher
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780865162716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAicher has crafted an ideal introduction and a valuable field companion for navigating the Roman aqueducts. Features new maps, schematic drawings, photographs, and reprints of Ashby's line drawings.
Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply
Author: A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"How did Roman waterworks work? How were the aqueducts planned and built? What happened to the water before it got into the aqueduct conduit and after it left it, in catchment, urban distribution and drainage? What were the hydraulics and engineering involved? And what was hydraulic technology like throughout the provinces, far from the often-studied system of metropolitan Rome? In a comprehensive study that ranges through the Roman aqueducts of France, Germany, Spain, North Africa, Turkey and Israel, Professor Hodge introduces us to these often neglected aspects of what the Romans themselves would certainly boast of as one of the greatest glories of their civilisation. Although often technically oriented, the book is aimed at non-engineers (there is a chapter on basic hydraulics, and an appendix on the use of formulae), and historians of society and the economy are not overlooked. Above all, the book looks on aqueducts as functioning machines rather than as static archaeological monuments." -- Provided by publisher
Public Needs and Private Pleasures
Author: Rabun M. Taylor
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9788882651008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's principal aims are to determine where and why aqueduct systems crossed the Tiber and to assess the function of the enigmatic Aqua Alsietia. An initial discussion of the technical and legal context for aqueduct planning is followed by a topographical inquiry into several specific aqueducts including the four earliest aqueduct river crossings: the Aqua Appia, Anio Velus, Aqua Marcia and the Aqua Virgo. Taylor also examines the expansion and organisation of water supply within the Transiberim, a heavily populated district of Rome to the west of the Tiber, and assesses its influence on Rome's wider urban policy.
Gardens of the Roman Empire
Author: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-28
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 1108327036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
The Flow of Power
Author: Vernon Lee Scarborough
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major contribution to one of the central themes in social theory, this book integrates multiple case studies of the relationship between water control and social organization. Substantial in empirical detail and featuring powerful theoretical extensions, Scarborough's analysis encompasses early Harappan society in South Asia, highland Mexico, the Maya lowlands, north-central Sri Lanka, the prehistoric American Southwest, and Bronze Age Greece. This book is the first longitudinal study to consider water management worldwide since Karl Wittfogel put forth his "hydraulic societies" hypothesis nearly two generations ago, and it draws together the diverse debates that seminal work inspired. In so doing, Scarborough offers new models for cross-cultural analysis and prepares the ground for new examinations of power, centralization, and the economy.
The Water Supply of Ancient Rome
Author: Christer Bruun
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForfatteren tager bl.a udgangspunkt i Frontinus' (ca. år 35-ca. 104) klassiske værk: De aquae ductu urbis Romae og belyser modsigelserne
Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome
Author: Brian Campbell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-08-15
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 080786904X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiguring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.
Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply
Author: A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2002-03-26
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a study ranging through the Roman aqueducts of France, Germany, Spain, North Africa, Turkey and Israel, this book provides an introduction to all aspects of Roman aqueducts and water supply.
