The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water
Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of th
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators
In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this m
Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in