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Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome

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Description for Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome Hardcover. A detailed exploration of nearly 200 objects from ancient Rome and museum collections around the world, gathered here into one handy, pocket-sized guide Series: Pocket Museum. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 140. .
If all the portable artifacts of Ancient Rome were in a single location, the lives of students, historians, and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler. But the masterpieces are in museums all over the world. This book identifies 200 of the most important of these works, and describes them vividly and informatively in ways that reveal how each is a key object in its own right - a creation that commemorates a great event or heralds the start of a new era in creativity or politics. From coins of the fifth century bce to pottery made at the time of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Pocket Museum
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500519592
SKU
9780500519592
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Ref
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About Virginia L. Campbell
Virginia L. Campbell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Tombs of Pompeii (Routledge, 2014), holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Reading and has taught at both Reading and St Andrews universities.

Reviews for Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome
'A diverse collection, ranging from bread to busts and from treasure to trumpets, offering an appealing window into an extraordinary culture' - History Revealed (Book of the Month)

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