Book Description
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 : Peter J. Aicher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780865162716
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 : A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
"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 : Sextus Julius Frontinus
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Abastecimiento de agua
ISBN :
Author : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1469621290
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 : S. Russell Forbes
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :
Author : Esther Boise Van Deman
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :
Author : G. de Kleijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004502300
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 : Thomas Ashby
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Harry B. Evans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472084463
Explores the water system that made ancient Rome possible
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN :
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.