Water in the Roman world : engineering, trade, religion and daily life /

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-wes...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Henig, Martin (Editor ), Lundock, Jason (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2022]
Colección:Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 91.
Archaeopress archaeology.
Temas:
Water > Rome > Religious aspects.
Water > Symbolic aspects > Rome.
Hydraulic engineering > Rome.
Water-supply > Rome.
Eau > Rome > Aspect religieux.
Eau > Aspect symbolique > Rome.
Technologie hydraulique > Rome.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Rome.
Civilization
Hydraulic engineering
Water > Religious aspects
Water-supply
Water > Symbolic aspects
Rome > Civilization.
Rome > Civilisation.
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Water and why materiality matters in Roman studies / Jason Lundock
  • Iconography of the lighthouse in Roman antiquity : Symbolism, identity and power across the Mediterranean / Federico Ugolini
  • Roman offensive planning : Shaping the Lower Rhine waterscape / Stijn Heeren and Mark Driessen
  • 'Springs sumptuously equipped' : Meanings of water at Bath / Eleri Cousins
  • If swimming was not a serious activity for the Greeks and Romans, they would not have had swimming pools / Jenny Amphaeris and Martin Henig
  • The social lives of wells in Roman Britain and beyond / James Gerrard
  • Aspects of the iconography of river gods in Roman Britain / Penny Coombe
  • What lies beneath? Interpreting the Romano-British assemblage from the River Tees at Piercebridge, County Durham / Philippa Walton and Hella Eckardt
  • Water and liminality in pre-Roman Gaul / Aaron Irvin
  • Worship of the nymphs at Aquae Iasae (Roman Pannonia Superior) : Cognition, ritual, and sacred space / Blanka Misic
  • An empire written on water : A personal view / Martin Henig.

Ejemplares similares