Ann Olga Koloski‐Ostrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Olga Koloski‐Ostrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Koloski‐Ostrow |
| SIGNATURE | OSTROW A O K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public health, Greece and Rome
Public health today involves political officials working hard to make sure that diseases are contained or eliminated, fresh water is available, and sanitation is in place for the well‐being of citizens. Finding evidence for similar concerns in Greece and Rome is not so easy, and may not even be the correct approach. Nevertheless, as the control and management of water and waste have been vital to all societies since the very beginnings of agricul…
The Moving City
Public health, Greece and Rome
Public health today involves political officials working hard to make sure that diseases are controlled or eliminated, fresh water is available, and sanitation is in place for the well‐being of citizens.
Transportation technology
Within the last fifty years or so there have been some revolutionary discoveries in Greek and Roman transportation technologies. Throughout the Greek and Roman periods, the need to move farm products and animals, people, and goods from one place to another encouraged considerable innovation over time.
Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC
"European first millennium BC studies have witnessed an increasing theoretical divide between the approaches adopted across different European countries. Whilst topics such as ethnicity, identity, and agency have dominated many British studies, such themes have had less resonance in continental approaches. At the same time, British and Iberian first millennium BC studies have become increasingly divorced from studies elsewhere in Europe. While su…
Bathing in the Roman World by Fikret Yegül
200 PHOENIX Arsinoë Rotunda at Samothrace and the Temple of Demeter dedicated on behalf of Boa, the mother of Philetairos and Eumenes, at Pergamon. This gendered architectural study is an excellent analysis of prominent works and breathes new life into what one might have considered fairly well-understood subjects. N. D. Cahill’s chapter begins with the history of mapping at Sardis and the problems encountered over the years. His examinations of …
An Overture to The Oxford Handbook
An Overture to The Oxford HandbookSerafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (bio) Serafina Cuomo produced her thoughtful but somewhat quirky book at an opportune moment.1 It not only offers a timely recognition of the ever-increasing popularity of the subject of ancient technology, but it is also a serious attempt to correct its long marginalization and to acknowledge all that it has to contribute…
New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (2008), edited by John Peter Oleson, successfully deploys (in thirty-two chapters divided into eight parts) new, critical examinations both of the progress and direction of many debates concerning Greek and Roman technology and engineering. Its 850+ pages cover everything from written sources to architecture to mining and metallurgy, to agriculture, to water power, to war an…
A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome
Reviewed by: A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bount No Winter Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (bio) A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter. By David L. Thurmond . Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. x+294. $138. D. L. Thurmond's Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome evolved from a simple question: How did Romans in the first century bce and the first two centuries ce feed themselves in Rome itself a…
Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2
De Aquis Pompeiorum. Das Castellum Aquae in Pompeji
Frontinus' Legacy
Violent Stages in Two Pompeian Houses
Just as the stage in a theater gives power and presence to the actors who perform on it, critics have recently come to see the architecture and decoration of the Roman house working together to create a kind of private “powerhouse”2 reinforcing the authority of the dominus. The relationships between rooms and the paintings (especially mythological) in those rooms define spaces where the owner put himself and his personal tastes on display to a se…
Frontinus' Legacy
Frontinus' Legacy challenges historians of science and technology, engineers interested in ancient water supply, and classicists drawn to problems raised by the ancient text De aquis urbis Romae, Frontinus' treatise on the aqueducts of Rome. Frontinus composed his work after he was appointed to the post of water commissioner in the year 97 C.E. In addition to providing us with a vast repository of information concerning the aqueducts, he paints a…
Roman Baths and Bathing
Tota Italia
Pompeii
Naked Truths
Water in the Roman town
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Die Pracht der Latrine
Roman Poets of the Early Empire
An anthology of poetry drawn from all of the genres practised during the early Roman Empire. This translation includes the work of Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Statius, Martial and Juvenal, as well as minor poets of the period
Building God's House in the Roman World
The Sanctuary of Apollo Hytates at Kourion, Cyprus
Hellenistic Painting Techniques
Naked Truths
Roman Baths and Bathing
Water in the Roman town
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Hellenistic Painting Techniques
The Sanctuary of Apollo Hytates at Kourion, Cyprus
Building God's House in the Roman World
Roman Poets of the Early Empire
An anthology of poetry drawn from all of the genres practised during the early Roman Empire. This translation includes the work of Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Statius, Martial and Juvenal, as well as minor poets of the period
Water in the Roman town
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Die Pracht der Latrine
Pompeii
Naked Truths
Roman Baths and Bathing
Tota Italia
Frontinus' Legacy
Frontinus' Legacy challenges historians of science and technology, engineers interested in ancient water supply, and classicists drawn to problems raised by the ancient text De aquis urbis Romae, Frontinus' treatise on the aqueducts of Rome. Frontinus composed his work after he was appointed to the post of water commissioner in the year 97 C.E. In addition to providing us with a vast repository of information concerning the aqueducts, he paints a…
Violent Stages in Two Pompeian Houses
Just as the stage in a theater gives power and presence to the actors who perform on it, critics have recently come to see the architecture and decoration of the Roman house working together to create a kind of private “powerhouse”2 reinforcing the authority of the dominus. The relationships between rooms and the paintings (especially mythological) in those rooms define spaces where the owner put himself and his personal tastes on display to a se…
Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2
De Aquis Pompeiorum. Das Castellum Aquae in Pompeji
Frontinus' Legacy
A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome
Reviewed by: A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bount No Winter Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (bio) A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter. By David L. Thurmond . Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. x+294. $138. D. L. Thurmond's Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome evolved from a simple question: How did Romans in the first century bce and the first two centuries ce feed themselves in Rome itself a…
New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (2008), edited by John Peter Oleson, successfully deploys (in thirty-two chapters divided into eight parts) new, critical examinations both of the progress and direction of many debates concerning Greek and Roman technology and engineering. Its 850+ pages cover everything from written sources to architecture to mining and metallurgy, to agriculture, to water power, to war an…
An Overture to The Oxford Handbook
An Overture to The Oxford HandbookSerafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (bio) Serafina Cuomo produced her thoughtful but somewhat quirky book at an opportune moment.1 It not only offers a timely recognition of the ever-increasing popularity of the subject of ancient technology, but it is also a serious attempt to correct its long marginalization and to acknowledge all that it has to contribute…
Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC
"European first millennium BC studies have witnessed an increasing theoretical divide between the approaches adopted across different European countries. Whilst topics such as ethnicity, identity, and agency have dominated many British studies, such themes have had less resonance in continental approaches. At the same time, British and Iberian first millennium BC studies have become increasingly divorced from studies elsewhere in Europe. While su…
Bathing in the Roman World by Fikret Yegül
200 PHOENIX Arsinoë Rotunda at Samothrace and the Temple of Demeter dedicated on behalf of Boa, the mother of Philetairos and Eumenes, at Pergamon. This gendered architectural study is an excellent analysis of prominent works and breathes new life into what one might have considered fairly well-understood subjects. N. D. Cahill’s chapter begins with the history of mapping at Sardis and the problems encountered over the years. His examinations of …
Public health, Greece and Rome
Public health today involves political officials working hard to make sure that diseases are controlled or eliminated, fresh water is available, and sanitation is in place for the well‐being of citizens.
Transportation technology
Within the last fifty years or so there have been some revolutionary discoveries in Greek and Roman transportation technologies. Throughout the Greek and Roman periods, the need to move farm products and animals, people, and goods from one place to another encouraged considerable innovation over time.
The Moving City
Public health, Greece and Rome
Public health today involves political officials working hard to make sure that diseases are contained or eliminated, fresh water is available, and sanitation is in place for the well‐being of citizens. Finding evidence for similar concerns in Greece and Rome is not so easy, and may not even be the correct approach. Nevertheless, as the control and management of water and waste have been vital to all societies since the very beginnings of agricul…
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