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Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome

by Assistant Professor Rabun Taylor
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/12/2000

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A 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.
ISBN:
9788882651008
9788882651008
Category:
Property & real estate
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
31-12-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Country of origin:
Italy
Pages:
290
Weight:
6.53kg

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