..., administrative, and ideological continuity with regard to the Roman past. Notwithstanding the growing involvement of the church in water management, public authorities remained the main actors in this field. Cassiodorus Theoderic water usage watermills aqueducts Frontinus slaves Constantinople vir...

... River. Fig. 1.5 The Pulgas Water Temple brought “a little bit of Rome” to the California landscape. Fig. 1.6 The route of William Mulholland’s Los Angeles Aqueduct. Fig. 1.7 Forty thousand people cheered when William Mulholland signaled for crews to open the gates that sent the first water...

...This chapter provides detailed information about the Roman aqueducts, ranging from the position and importance of the water sources to the course and volume of the aqueducts and the number and organization of the personnel employed in this critical branch of the Roman public administration...

... reference to the planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels. Two such instruments are the groma, the exact counterpart of the dioptra in horizontal mode, and the libra. Egypt geometry leveling obelisks surveying Alexandria Egypt al Karaji Anonymus Byzantinus Corpus...

...This chapter focuses on two important areas of Roman infrastructure: the repair of bridges over the Tiber River and the construction of a new aqueduct, the Acqua Felice. For both, it discusses the struggles between the papacy and the Capitoline Council about raising the money and carrying out...

... that resembled Epicurean and Lucretian notions of atoms and the void, while also finding resonances with contemporary Roman aqueducts. In the first century BCE, the Methodists presented yet another view of medical epistemology and another associated view of corporeality that rested upon the “manifest...

..., consciously developed as the first city of the east, and second only to Rome. As a result of these efforts, which were continued by Constantine’s successors, by the late fourth century the city was already lavishly equipped with public monuments and amenities: imperial palaces and public squares, aqueducts...

... 1981: 190; Grijalva 1990; Cortez 1992). By the mid-1950s, the country had become the world’s leading banana exporter. This manufactured ‘banana bonanza’ was organized through a new political economic and ecological transformation. aqueducts banana exports capital dialectics flows global investment...

...The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archaeological record, graffiti, sanitation...

...This chapter examines the complex effort undertaken in Rome to rediscover the entire course of an ancient aqueduct, the Acqua Vergine and to repair it in order to make it fully functional. It discusses the ancient Roman aqueducts and their remains in the sixteenth century. It also discusses...

... harbour ‘Sigma’ name of harbour of Julian Gilles Pierre Petrus Gyllius Antiquities of Constantinople Theodosius I Roman emperor Gothic campaigns of Vavassore Giovanni Andreas panorama of harbours of Graeco‒Roman Byzantium Byzantium Graeco‒Roman city taken by Constantine aqueducts character...

... rebellion and defeat on Arcadius column Augusteum Augousteion and Severan Tetrastoon colonnades porticus in urban design at Lepcis Magna elephant at Constantinople makros embolos ‘Long Colonnade’ ‘of Domninus’ Mesē urban highway aqueducts character and function Tychē Fortuna of Constantinople...

...This chapter examines the origins of the Roman bathhouse. It begins with the Roman aqueducts and their connections to the Roman bathhouses. At the very core of these bathhouses, the chapter explains, is the combination of water and heat, and how the technology to achieve this on a wide scale made...

... process, though sometimes involved with public building; a religious official, with responsibility for the buildings of a sanctuary; or a practising architect, either employed by a city or working independently. aqueducts building workers canons cylinders equestrians fortifications geometry...

... and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of late...

... in the urban infrastructure. In particular the sources appear to suggest how the maintenance of the aqueducts came to dominate urban euergetism at Constantinople at the expense of other aspects of civic display. Finally, the comparative element of the study helps deepen our understanding of the diverging...

... had brought down ‘monuments and sacred buildings’. aqueducts banquets city goddesses euergetism festivals harbours imperial cult keystones mortality Monumental architecture, then, strengthened a sense of public or civic identity in Antonine cities. But, because a public building could assert...