360 pages
English language
Published Sept. 23, 2010 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Mary Beard: The fires of Vesuvius (2010, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-674-04586-6
- OCLC Number:
- 601536792
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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
Subjects
- Social conditions
- Social life and customs
- Religious life and customs
Places
- Pompeii (Extinct city)