ROMAN WATERWORKS

It is too much to expect all aspects of Rome's water supply to be studied adequately within any single book, and Gerda De Kleijn's "The Water Supply of Ancient Rome: City Area, Water and Population" is a foundation stone, not the complete edifice. On its technical side, the book should be used with caution. As a compendium of literary evidence it is admirably comprehensive. And for general classicists it raises topics and questions they will find well worth considering further.