'The water that comes and goes: successes and limitations of hydraulic engineering in ancient Rome'. XXXIV Autumn Conference Cycle

Good to know

Organised by

Museo de San Isidro. Los Orígenes de Madrid

Speaker

Julio Cortés Martín

Presented by

Emilia Fernández de Mier (Vice President of the board of the Madrid Delegation of SEEC)

Topic

Successes and limitations of hydraulic engineering in ancient Rome

Cycle

XXXIV Autumn Conference Cycle

What's it about

A journey through the hydraulic engineering of ancient Rome —aqueducts, sewers and dams— led by two experts of the era, Marcus Vitruvius and Sextus Julius Frontinus, evaluating their successes and limitations from the perspective of a modern engineer.

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