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Pompeii
Adelene Buckland
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Description for Pompeii
paperback. Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. 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 Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861975966
SKU
V9781861975966
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About Adelene Buckland
Mary Beard is Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has worldwide academic acclaim. Her previous books include Confronting the Classics, SPQR and most recently, Women & Power and Emperor of Rome. She has made numerous television series and her books have been published in over thirty languages.
Reviews for Pompeii
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 thoroughly worthy winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, Mary Beard's bedroom-to-boardroom tour of the life of a Roman town is disgracefully enjoyable for such a deeply learned and sceptically debunking book
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past
Judith Rice
Guardian
[A] brilliant portrait...This meticulous, vivid study of life in the town, the winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city
James McConnachie
Sunday Times
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 Pompeiana 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
The 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 Best Holiday Books
Wonderful piece of scholarship worn lightly and wittily
Tom Widger
Sunday Tribune
Wittily written...evoking in all who read it the insatiable need to see the town for themselves
Georgie Durkheim
Catholic Herald
A myth-breaking expedition, grandiose in scale, vibrant in its telling
Colin Gardiner
Oxford Times
Engaging and defiantly otherworldly
Business Destinations
A learned and fascinating book
Guardian
In this brilliant portrait of the "life in a Roman town", Mary Beard uses the relics buried by the eruption on AD79 to bring everyday Roman culture alive.'
Sunday Times
Compelling
Independent
Laura Silverman
Daily Mail
A thoroughly worthy winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, Mary Beard's bedroom-to-boardroom tour of the life of a Roman town is disgracefully enjoyable for such a deeply learned and sceptically debunking book
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past
Judith Rice
Guardian
[A] brilliant portrait...This meticulous, vivid study of life in the town, the winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city
James McConnachie
Sunday Times
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 Pompeiana 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
The 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 Best Holiday Books
Wonderful piece of scholarship worn lightly and wittily
Tom Widger
Sunday Tribune
Wittily written...evoking in all who read it the insatiable need to see the town for themselves
Georgie Durkheim
Catholic Herald
A myth-breaking expedition, grandiose in scale, vibrant in its telling
Colin Gardiner
Oxford Times
Engaging and defiantly otherworldly
Business Destinations
A learned and fascinating book
Guardian
In this brilliant portrait of the "life in a Roman town", Mary Beard uses the relics buried by the eruption on AD79 to bring everyday Roman culture alive.'
Sunday Times
Compelling
Independent