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Article: Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2009
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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. By Gregory S. Aldrette. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 338. $60.00.)
Floods are a neglected topic among historians. Many early cities lay in vulnerable flood plains where fertile soils and irrigation agriculture produced high crop yields, but often at considerable risk. Ancient Egypt is a case in point for the annual Nile inundations were unpredictable and always potentially destructive. In Floods of the Tiber, the author examines the complex relationship between the vagaries of floodwaters and ancient Rome, the earliest city with over a million inhabitants.
Gregory S. Aldrette ...