Christer Bruun

Roman emperors and legislation on public water use in the Roman Empire: clarifications and problems

One often encounters a lack of clarity about the emperor’s role when it comes to water distribution and the right to draw public water in the Roman world, in cities and towns, in the countryside and from rivers. Certainly, much is known about his involvement in water distribution at Rome, yet it is less clear what role he played in supplying water in the empire more broadly. This article discusses, necessarily in a fairly compressed fashion, the ways in which the Roman emperor legislated on and influenced the management of public water resources in the Roman world. In order to place the emperor’s actions in their proper context, something is said also about other sources of Roman law, and about legislation concerning private water resources.

Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West

300845 * I am most grateful to the editors for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article. Thanks are also due to Alexander Kirby, ma, for stylistic improvements; remaining errors are my own. 1 Woolf 2013a; I am grateful to the author for providing me with a copy. 2 The vast general literature on migration research can obviously only briefly be touched upon here; cf., for instance, the contributions in Lucassen and Lucassen 1997a. 3 Cited by Brettell and Simon 1986: 3; for the original data, see Ravenstein 1885: 196–199. 4 Tyree and Donato 1986: 21–22. On women constituting the majority among Caribbean migrants, see Patterson 1978: 115. In general on modern female migration, see, e.g., Simon and Brettell 1986; several historical cases of strong female migration also in Hin 2013: 228–230. 5 Cf. Garnsey and De Ligt, in this volume. chapter 9

Rome in the Late Republic. Problems and Interpretations@@@Political Life in the City of Rome

This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions. This second edition also contains a new introduction and an updated bibliography.