This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water
on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was
controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic
infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and
made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The
Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were
mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement,
maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as
fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda
on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied
to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and
predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific
and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to
classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In
the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human
endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as
an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private
fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on
every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water
for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and
health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ
large.
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