Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome

"Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome is that rare thing in scholarship, a work that genuinely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. Professor Aldrete has brilliantly illuminated an aspect of ancient Rome that was ever present to the city's inhabitants but almost invisible to modern historians."—Stanley Burstein, History Teacher

"Thoughtful study."—Dennis E. Trout, American Historical Review

"A noble attempt to bring interdisciplinary evidence from outside classical sources to bear on a long-standing problem of Roman history and archaeology."—James C. Anderson, Jr., Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"A meticulously researched, well-written, and thoroughly referenced study of a little known aspect of Rome's history."—Brian Fagan, Historian

"Raises important questions about the effects of flooding of the Tiber on the city of ancient Rome and its inhabitants and explores why Romans did not take more sweeping steps to reduce, if not eliminate, the dangers of urban flooding. There is no comparable book-length study of this topic, so this work fills a real need. It will be of interest not only to students of ancient history, but to hydrologists and students of urban studies as well. Certainly it will give us classicists much to think about in our assessment of urban life in ancient Rome."—Harry B. Evans, Fordham University, author of Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century