Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Ancient Society and History) by Gregory S. Aldrete

Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Ancient Society and History)



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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Ancient Society and History) Gregory S. Aldrete
Language: English
Page: 362
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0801884055, 9780801884054
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Review

Raises important questions about the effects of flooding of the Tiber on the city of ancient Rome and its inhabitants and explores why Romans did not take more sweeping steps to reduce, if not eliminate, the dangers of urban flooding. There is no comparable book-length study of this topic, so this work fills a real need. It will be of interest not only to students of ancient history, but to hydrologists and students of urban studies as well. Certainly it will give us classicists much to think about in our assessment of urban life in ancient Rome.

(Harry B. Evans, Fordham University, author of Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century 2007)

A comprehensive, insightful and lucid book-length study on a topic of great importance.

(Eric Kondratieff Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008)

Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome is that rare thing in scholarship, a work that genuinely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. Professor Aldrete has brilliantly illuminated an aspect of ancient Rome that was ever present to the city's inhabitants but almost invisible to modern historians.

(Stanley Burstein History Teacher 2009)

Thoughtful study.

(Dennis E. Trout American Historical Review )

A noble attempt to bring interdisciplinary evidence from outside classical sources to bear on a long-standing problem of Roman history and archaeology.

(James C. Anderson, Jr. Journal of Interdisciplinary History )

A meticulously researched, well-written, and thoroughly referenced study of a little known aspect of Rome's history.

(Brian Fagan Historian )

About the Author

Gregory S. Aldrete is a professor of history and humanistic studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and author of Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome, also published by Johns Hopkins.

(2007)

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