MODERN BATHS AND BATH HOUSES
Introduction 1 PART ONE GENDER ROLES, ATTITUDES, PRACTICES, AND INNOVATIONS IN BATHS AND BATHING River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity 21 Archimedes, the North Baths at Morgantina, and Early Developments in Vaulted Construction 43 Female Bathers and the Emergence of the Female Nude in Greek Art 61 Women at the Fountain and the Well: Imagining Experience 87 “Take, Skamandros, My Virginity”: Ideas of Water in Connection with Rites of Passage in Greece, Modern and Ancient 109 Baths, Scrubs, and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon De Vallambert (1564) 149 Polemicizing Women’s Bathing Among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians 171 PART TWO WATER AND THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY AND POLICY Earth and Water: The Foundations of Sovereignty in Ancient Thought 191 The Legacy of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains in Greece 211 The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity and the Image of Tiberinus 233 Cisterns in the Astynomoi Law from Pergamon 249 “We and Those Waters of the Sea Are One”: Baptism, Bathing, and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia 263 PART THREE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WATER SOURCES AND RESOURCES Natural Water Resources and the Sacred in Attica 277 “Beautiful and Useful”: The Water Supply of Pisidian Antioch and the Development of the Roman Colony 301 Running Water: Advances in Urban Water Supply during the Roman Empire 319 Villas and Aquatic Culture in Late Roman Spain 337 The Hydrologic Cycle in Bede’s De Natura Rerum 361 The Challenge for a Medieval Center of Industrial Growth: Ypres and the Drinking-Water Problem 381