FINE242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Aqua Claudia
31 Oct 2016
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Monument was erected by the emperor under the time of the emeror claudias for the imperial cult. Special of the julio claudians because of their connection to aphrodite. Emperor as a greek hero in the nude supressing the personification of britania. Child possibly cupid relating to family or family values. This is about augustus unlike the ara pacis which is about peace and prosperity. Giant pipline to bring freshwater from one place to another. Arch lets you span distances with minimum amounts of material and you can use concrete to create a whole form. Typical aqueducts cover kilometers over very rough today--credited to the romans who were critical in the development of hydraulic engineering. Our earliest aqueduct goes back to the second century bc. By the height of the roman empire there were (900 cubic litres of water coming into rome every day) seven coming into the city of rome and by the time rome falls there were about nine.
