Handbook of Ancient Water Technology
Biographical note
Örjan Wikander, Ph.D. (1980), is Universitetslektor (Associate Professor) in the department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Lund, Sweden. His English-language publications include Deliciae fictiles (1993) and The Exploitation of Water-Power or Technological Stagnation? (1984).
Reviews
'...a true and worthy successor of Forbes’authorative studies and will be the new standard for many years. All contributors and especially the editor are to be congratulated with their splendid result.'
Nathalie de Haan, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2003.
'...sistently readable and of high quality.'
Choice, 2000.
'...volume provides an up-to-date overview of problems and the state of the field, in some ways summarizing what is already in print, in others breaking new ground in areas not treated synthetically to date...every college library and university library should order at least one copy.'
Harry B. Evans, Classical World.
Nathalie de Haan, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2003.
'...sistently readable and of high quality.'
Choice, 2000.
'...volume provides an up-to-date overview of problems and the state of the field, in some ways summarizing what is already in print, in others breaking new ground in areas not treated synthetically to date...every college library and university library should order at least one copy.'
Harry B. Evans, Classical World.
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