Water in the Roman World
Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily Life
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Water in the Roman World
Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily Life
About this book
Water in the Roman World: Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily Life offers a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world. Individual papers deal with ports and their lighthouses; with water engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for the digging of wells for drinking water, and for multiple other purposes; with baths for swimming; and with spas. Further papers explore religion in water-sanctuaries and the deposition of objects in rivers as well as deities connected with water, including river gods and nymphs. A final chapter provides an overview of subjects not fully covered elsewhere, including warships and naval battles, trade and navigation, aqueducts, fishing and fish-farming, and literary response to watery landscapes, rivers and lakes. The latter include works by great landowners such as the younger Pliny with his Laurentine villa beside the sea west of Rome or by poets, among them Catullus enjoying Lake Garda and Ausonius with his loving description of the River Moselle. The contributors address the subject in a variety of different ways, as Classicists drawing largely on literature, archaeologists with experience of excavating the watery environment, and art-historians. The papers range from the theoretical, with particular interest in materiality, to more lyrical approaches which address the Romans with their problems as well as their pleasures.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents Page
- Preface
- Water and Why Materiality Matters in Roman Studies
- Iconography of the Lighthouse in Roman Antiquity: Symbolism, Identity and Power Across the Mediterranean
- Roman Offensive Planning: Shaping the Lower Rhine Waterscape
- ‘Springs Sumptuously Equipped’: Meanings of Water at Bath
- If Swimming was Not a Serious Activity for the Greeks and Romans, They Would Not have had Swimming Pools
- The Social-Lives of Wells in Roman Britain and Beyond
- Aspects of the Iconography of River Gods in Roman Britain
- Water and Liminality in Pre-Roman Gaul
- Worship of the Nymphs at Aquae Iasae (Roman Pannonia Superior): Cognition, Ritual, and Sacred Space
- An Empire Written on Water: A Personal View
- Author Biographies
- Back cover