Events

Lecture: Communal Water, Invisible Labor: Modeling the Social Impact of Pompeii’s Street Fountains

Joseph Merrick Jones Hall 108, Tulane University Freret Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

A lecture by Professor Matthew Notarian (Hiram College, OH) Abstract: The remarkable preservation of the Roman city of Pompeii provides unprecedented insight into an aqueduct-fed urban water system. Visitors often marvel at the city’s network of public street fountains, but few consider the practical consequences of the tedious but essential labor required to transport water […]