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Author : Alexander Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021861741
Author : Georgia A. Aristodemou,Theodosios P. Tassios
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784917654
This volume is the first presentation of large scale waterworks in the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire. As a collective work, it brings together a wide body of experts from the newly emerged and expanding field of water technology and water archaeology in Roman Greece, and it fills an essential gap in archaeological research.
Author : G. de Kleijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004502307
Kleijn, G. de The Water Supply of Ancient Rome. City Area, Water, and Population. 2001 The Aqua Appia (312 BC) was the first of the eleven aqueducts leading to Rome to be built in antiquity. Time and again, the volume of water brought into the city was increased through the construction of new aqueducts. Rome’s population and the extent of its built-up area also changed over time. This study examines how data derived from our knowledge of the urban water supply in antiquity may help answering questions about the urban social fabric and topography. DMAHA 22 (2001), 365 p. Cloth. - 68.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050632688
Author : Roberta J. Magnusson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801866265
Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies -- how they worked, what uses the water served -- and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework -- one that argues for the importance of local initiatives. "The following chapters attempt to chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of technological and social determinism. While writing them, I have tried to strike a balance between the technical and human aspects of medieval hydraulic systems, and to remember that beneath the welter of documents and diffusion patterns, configurations and components, ordinances and expenditures, lie the perceptions, the choices, and often the plain hard work of individual men and women." -- from the Preface
Author : Harry B. Evans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0472084461
Explores the water system that made ancient Rome possible
Author : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621296
The 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.
Author : A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951D00963820B
"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
Author : Elim Henry D'AVIGDOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025721190
Author : A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055884954
In 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.
Author : Christer Bruun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035346134
Forfatteren tager bl.a udgangspunkt i Frontinus' (ca. år 35-ca. 104) klassiske værk: De aquae ductu urbis Romae og belyser modsigelserne
Author : Peter J. Aicher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865162719
Aicher 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.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:4057664570215
This book presents the legislation that formed the basis of Roman law - The Laws of the Twelve Tables. These laws, formally promulgated in 449 BC, consolidated earlier traditions and established enduring rights and duties of Roman citizens. The Tables were created in response to agitation by the plebeian class, who had previously been excluded from the higher benefits of the Republic. Despite previously being unwritten and exclusively interpreted by upper-class priests, the Tables became highly regarded and formed the basis of Roman law for a thousand years. This comprehensive sequence of definitions of private rights and procedures, although highly specific and diverse, provided a foundation for the enduring legal system of the Roman Empire.
Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004368972
This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water.
Author : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108327039
In 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.
Author : Clemens Herschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55749275
