Aqua ducta, aqua distributa: La gestione delle risorse idriche in età romana by Anna Domizia Bianco
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Abstract
208 PHOENIX The fifth chapter ("Mistress as Metaphor: A Dialogue with Panthea") explores the way Lucian's dialogic descriptions of Panthea, mistress of Lucius Verus while he was stationed at Antioch, function to explore relationships between Roman power, Greek culture, and the non-Greek elements of the east. Verus' Panthea not only brings to mind the power of Roman imperium over Greek culture (and those who still feel that they are part of a Greek as well as Roman world), but she also recalls Xenophon's earlier Panthea in the Cyropaedia. Thus, the emperor's mistress suggests something about the relationship between the contemporary Greek east, classical Greek literature and thought, and the non and pre-Greek east. Such a mix will be especially important for Lucian, who represents himself as a Syrian, but who is deeply learned about Greek culture and who contributes to Greece's literature. Panthea, the Greek mistress of a Roman emperor, can herself be seen as the kind of appropriation at stake in the highly intertextual descriptions of her. Much here is thought-provoking, and if the book sometimes fails to satisfy, it is perhaps because of the difficulties inherent in the project. Not only must texts, including sculpture and coin portraits, be analyzed in the face of massive gaps in the evidentiary record, but Vout must try to put herself, and her audience, in the mindset of an ancient reader or viewer. She very successfully outlines the numerous questions that arise when we try to consider what, and how, her subjects "mean," but in many cases answers are of necessity speculative. Nevertheless, Vout has done a service by outlining the many questions sexualized representations of emperors raise and pointing to some of the ramifications of asking and answering them. University of Minnesota Christopher Nappa Aqua ducta, aqua distributa : La gestione delle risorse idriche in età romana. Par Anna Domizia Bianco. Torino : Silvio Zamorani editore, 2007. Pp. 271. A l'origine une thèse de doctorat, l'ouvrage d'Anna Domitia Bianco apporte une synthèse importante sur les mécanismes administratifs et l'organisation de l'accès et du partage de l'eau à partir des fonctions de base des aqueducs romains — aqua ducta, aqua distributa. Cette problématique et les options politiques qu'elle engendra à Rome dès ses origines jusqu'au vic siècle ap. j.-c. sont envisagées également par la persistance des mêmes choix jusqu'à nos jours. Une excellente bibliographie (237-261) et un index des sources suivi des indices thématiques (264-271) rendent compte de la rigueur de la recherche et 26 images agrémentent la lecture d'un dialogue constant entre les sources antiques et la bibliographie moderne. Le premier chapitre (19-67) donne un aperçu sur l'histoire de l'approvisionnement en eau de Rome du IVe av. au vic ap. j.-c. Des courts paragraphes synthétiques consacrés aux spécificités de chaque période s'enchaînent pour cerner les évolutions dans la gestion de l'adduction, la manutention et la distribution de l'eau ainsi que les mécanismes administratifs qui ont érigé les aqueducs au cœur de la cura aquarum à Rome et les opérations qu'ils impliquent (construction, entretien, distribution, frais, surveillance, juridiction). Le deuxième chapitre (68-109) répartit judicieusement les fonctions de la cura aquarum entre les couches sociales inférieures et l'aristocratie sénatoriale ainsi qu'entre l'administration publique et les professions libérales. L'auteure reconstitue la hiérarchie des protagonistes de la cura aquarum qui croise en réalité un ensemble d'activités manuelles et bureaucratiques BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 209 dont le rapport avec la cura aquarum n'est pas toujours implicite. Il en résulte un système très articulé qui ne peut pas être soupçonné uniquement à partir de l'œuvre de référence de Frontin, De Aquaeductu Vrbis Romae. Ainsi, pour les mensores et à ce propos, il aurait été intéressant de faire état de la tendance actuelle de l'historiographie qui identifie Frontin, le père de la discipline de Yagrimensura, avec l'auteur De Aquaeductu Vrbis Romae. Cette...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".