Water in the Roman World: engineering, trade, religion, and daily life

Review by Dylan K Rogers To say that the Roman world was overflowing with water is an understatement. Recently, scholarship has increasingly begun to explore the numerous ways water impacted the lives of ancient Romans, from understanding the design of aqueducts in the countryside to the social impact that fountains had in the home. I have myself, in the past, attempted to define the elements of a Roman ‘culture of water’ that speaks not only to pleasure and consumption, but is also predicated on power and resources. In this vein, the volume under review provides a wonderful update to this work, as the individual chapters all seek to illustrate the complexity of Roman life through