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• W2292477079 abstract "Review of Michael Peachin, Frontinus and curae of curator aquarum. Heidelberger althistorische Beitrage und epigraphische Studien, Bd. 39. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. ix, 197. ISBN 3-515-08638-6. At time of publication, author Cynthia Damon was affiliated with Amherst College. Currently, she is a faculty member at University of Pennsylvania. Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Classics This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/41 Bryn M awr Classical Rev iew Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.15 Mkhael Pearhln, FrDIIIbuls 111111 tile CIII'U ofiM Clll'tdor tliJIUII'IIIIL H~o tdtldstomcltt! Bt!itl'igt! liiUl eplgl'tlpiiUcltt! Stadle11, Btl. 39. Stuttgart: Fraaz Stehler Verlag, 2004. Pp.lx, 197. ISBN 3-515-086386. E39.00. Rmewed by Cyndlia DamoD, Amhenl CoDege (M•PDOD@•mhft'lt.edu) Wcmhount: 1323 'Mmla Michael PCK!rin (hemsfter P.) has pmdueedanintm:sting book on Fnmtinwl. R•ivd eyebrows, IIDYone?llead on. P. IIIBW'I that FIW11inua' co'/11111e1J1ariu on Roma'a water mpply waa neither a hmulhnolr DDI' 1m cmcamimn but IBih.er 8 rhetorically and politically BOphisticated call to join spirit of then'' age (p. 140), DI',IDII high-falu1in', 8 politiadpampblat'' (p. 7, 81) llddnlssed to city's elite ptvpeil)'CJWDCml. The ll!glllllent, melhodiad and fu11, is JRHDted with an agreeable air of opcmnelll about textnal difficulties whosa nMIOiation may bel tendentious, qm..,m that may be cin:ular, and qu~M~tiDDS that cazmot be BIIIWe accordins toP., is Nsva's pmmise to c:ontin110 his praclllc:mDD' beni;/idtl UJWked(quotedatPiin. Ep. 10.58.7-9). Private acceu to public water had blll cf. 88.1, 88.4, 89-93 for other reforms)-is testimony to a major imperial effort, which makes one wonder why, ifP. is right about purpose of De aquis, the essential point of book [seems] too sensitive to be mentioned too openly (p. 80) . .Q Ultimately, P. has larger fish to fry: not Frontinus but administrative (to look on bright side) created by class of which he was, as this book argues, a representative member. The rethinking ofFrontinus and rereading of De aquis as a source for elite attitudes to administration occupy chapter 4. P. argues that evidence about Frontinus in sources other than De aquis is generally read through lens of De aquis; take this away and his features become blurred (p. 96). Faute de mieux, it seems, Frontinus ends up with something of a likeness to younger Pliny (p. 97). This doesn't move us forrader by much. The second, and richer, part of chapter looks at what De aquis tells us about administration of water supply from republican period through first century CE, paying particular attention to evidence of record-keeping and oversight. In both fields P. finds a legacy ofadhocery, or even downright negligence. The resulting mess threatens the heart of early Empire's political system (p. 122), namely, imperial beneficia that tied elite to their princeps. It was essential to clarify lines of gift-exchange, particularly at outset of what Nerva (presumably) hoped was a new dynasty. This, P. argues, was what Frontinus set out to do as curator aquarum, and it was also lesson he wanted to pass on to his successors through his commentarius (pp. 141-42).1 I suggested above that Frontinus' work may address two types of reader. I can say same with more confidence about P.'s: this is a book worth attention of both specialists who need to know their Frontinus and all of us who want to know, to borrow a section title from chapter 4, For Whom Water Flows..8." @default.
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