The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found / Mary Beard.
2008
DG70.P7 B43 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found / Mary Beard.
Author
Beard, Mary, 1955-
ISBN
9780674029767 (alk. paper)
0674029763 (alk. paper)
0674029763 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DG70.P7 B43 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
937/.7256807
Summary
Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was -- more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? -- and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. --from publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Living in an old city
Street life
House and home
Painting and decorating
Earning a living : baker, banker and garum maker
Who ran the city?
The pleasures of the body : food, wine, sex and baths
Fun and games
A city full of gods.
Street life
House and home
Painting and decorating
Earning a living : baker, banker and garum maker
Who ran the city?
The pleasures of the body : food, wine, sex and baths
Fun and games
A city full of gods.