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Infrastructure in the Roman World: Roads and Aqueducts

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Roads in the Roman World

Introduction

The Roman road system, together with the sea transport network, represents one of the essential structural means, moles necessariae (Plin. HN 30.75), through which the Roman state at first established itself and then maintained its empire. In the meanwhile, the Roman civilization, thanks in part to its road system, succeeded in assimilating, merging, and transforming even the most dissimilar and distant cultural and economic influences and contributions; all of them helped the Roman civilization to take on that character of universality which enabled it to endure (Quilici 1990: 11, 22). The construction of Roman roads is governed by a strong process of abstraction which simplifies the complexity of landscape in order to get an environmental model and tool able to organize and manage space. The land is deprived of its natural features and is isolated from its context. The “milestones of nature,” such as trees,...

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Fasolo, M. (2014). Infrastructure in the Roman World: Roads and Aqueducts. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1458

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