The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found / Mary Beard.

The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found / Mary Beard.

9780674029767 (alk. paper)
0674029763 (alk. paper)

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

English

360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

DG70.P7 B43 2008

937/.7256807

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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