History & The Arts
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
...Geography (5.3.8), he praised the Romans for three major achievements which enhanced ‘the blessings with which nature supplies the city’ of Rome: creating roads, aqueducts, and building sewers ‘to wash away the filth of the city into the river Tiber’. Indeed, he added, the sewers in Rome are so large that wagons loaded with hay can drive along them. [Roman...