Classical Studies 2700A/B Lecture 10: Classics 2700B Lecture 10
1 Feb 2017
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The romans were far from being the first people to have aqueducts. These are descended from ditches used by early agriculturalists to irrigate crops; then to supply drinking water for villages and towns; and then valleys on higher ground were dammed to help maintain a constant water-supply. Water supplies in the bronze age aegean area (knossos, mycenae and athens; also in mohenjo-daro) In later greece, public wells and fountain- houses. More elaborate water supply systems by beginning of classical period; exx. of. Later still, the romans tended to avoid high pressure systems, but had increasingly lengthy supply lines. Ultimately 11 systems fed the city; inside rome the aqua claudia (built by. Emperor claudius in ad 47) had high arches; outside the city to the south the. Aqua marcia (144 bc) was most impressive in appearance, since it linked up with a later system (the anio novus, ad 52)
