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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Mary Beard
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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: 326.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Profile Books(GB)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846684715
SKU
9781846684715
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About Mary Beard
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more