The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found

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The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found

Title remainder

Pompeii lost and found

Statement of responsibility

Mary Beard

Title variation

• Pompeii: the life of a Roman town
• Pompeii lost and found

Creator

• trueBeard, Mary, 1955-

Subject

• trueAncient cities and towns -- Rome
• trueCity life
• truePompeii (Extinct city)
• Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Religious life and customs
• Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Social conditions
• trueAncient cities and towns
• trueRome
• trueRome -- History
• trueRome -- Social life and customs
• truePompeii (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs

Language

eng

Summary

Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was -- more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? -- and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. --from publisher description

Award

New York Times Notable Book, 2009

Cataloging source

VMC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography