Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Water distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of ancient Rome

by Rabun Taylor

Book cover: Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Extent: 290 pages

Publisher: L’ERMA di Bretschneider

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Studia Archaeologica

Series volume number: 109

Language: English

(Hardback) (Out of print)

(December 2000)

ISBN: 9788882651008

Price: $164.00

Out of stock

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part one: a prctical primer: Chapter 1. A Technical survey
Chapter 2. Aqueduct planning and the law
Chapter 3. Dominium vs. imperium: Was expropriation by reason of public utility possible under Roman law?
Part two: a topographical inquiry: Chapter 4. Agrippa, Augustus, and the four earliest aqueduct river crossings
Chapter 5. The Aqua Alsietina
Chapter 6. From Nero to Trajan
Appendix: Aqueduct river crossings in Renaissance Rome
Bibliography
Index.

  • By (author) Rabun Taylor