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Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity)

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Description for Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity) Paperback. This volume presents the history of Pompeii. It explores Pompeii's public buildings, its streets and gathering places, the impact of religious changes, the renovation of theatres and expansion of athletic facilities and the influence of elite families on the city's appearance. Translator(s): Schneider, Deborah Lucas. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 286 pages, 113 line illustrations, 15 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 462.

Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago.

When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not only the Pompeii of that time but a palimpsest of the city's history, visible traces of the different societies of Pompeii's past. Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture, disentangles these tantalizing traces to show us the urban images ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Series
Revealing Antiquity
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674689671
SKU
V9780674689671
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Paul Zanker
Paul Zanker is Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Munich, and Director of the German Archeological Institute in Rome. He is the author of Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity and The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.

Reviews for Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity)
Zanker has written what is destined to become a classic study. Quietly authoritative, Zanker's brief yet endlessly suggestive overview of Pompeii and its buildings puts architecture, as it ought to be, squarely in the context of the social and spiritual attitudes that produce it.
New York Times Book Review
The fate of Pompeii, however tragic, affords a unique ... Read more

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