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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Adelene Buckland
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Description for Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
paperback. 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scrutinising and animated in equal measure' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books(GB)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846684715
SKU
V9781846684715
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99-99
About Adelene Buckland
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
Reviews for Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past
Judith Rice
Guardian
Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place, and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life.
Nicholas Bagnall
Sunday Telegraph
To the vast field of Pompeiiana she brings the human touch... this absorbing, inquisitive and affectionate account of Pompeii is a model of its kind. Beard has caught the quick of what was and, in our lives today, remains the same.
Ross Leckie
The Times
Very readable and excellently researched... Beard's clear-sighted and accessible style makes this a compelling look into history.
Alexander Larman
Observer
If you want to know what really happened in the last days of the petrified city, Beard's meticulous reconstruction will fill you in, scraping away many of your preconceptions as it goes, while her evocative writing will transport you back.
Guardian
The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy ... scrutinising and animated in equal measure.
Laura Silverman
Daily Mail
A brilliant portrait ... this meticulous, vivid study of life in the town rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city.
James McConnachie
Sunday Times
Judith Rice
Guardian
Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place, and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life.
Nicholas Bagnall
Sunday Telegraph
To the vast field of Pompeiiana she brings the human touch... this absorbing, inquisitive and affectionate account of Pompeii is a model of its kind. Beard has caught the quick of what was and, in our lives today, remains the same.
Ross Leckie
The Times
Very readable and excellently researched... Beard's clear-sighted and accessible style makes this a compelling look into history.
Alexander Larman
Observer
If you want to know what really happened in the last days of the petrified city, Beard's meticulous reconstruction will fill you in, scraping away many of your preconceptions as it goes, while her evocative writing will transport you back.
Guardian
The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy ... scrutinising and animated in equal measure.
Laura Silverman
Daily Mail
A brilliant portrait ... this meticulous, vivid study of life in the town rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city.
James McConnachie
Sunday Times