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Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome: 109 (Studia Archaeologica) - Hardcover
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.
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- PublisherL'Erma Di Bretschneider
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 8882651002
- ISBN 13 9788882651008
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages290
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Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome
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ISBN 10: 8882651002
ISBN 13: 9788882651008
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