ABSTRACT
Water has the greatest power over man. There is the obvious and very tangible physical power of water—its purifying, life-sustaining and life-giving properties—and its destructive ability. The sanctuary built at the spring on Mount Zaghouan was a monument to water, but also homage the Romans paid to their own prowess and skill. They were proud of their ability to tame the fickle waters that ran through their empire. Most Roman cities developed without aqueducts, depending on the water of wells and cisterns, and the aqueduct was only built later too supply extra water, mainly to the baths. The transformation of a functional water engineering work into a monument to water and engineering is undoubtedly best represented in the Marathon Dam, which was built in the 1920s in Greece, and which is entirely covered with panels of Pentelic marble like a temple.
