the fires of vesuvius pompeii lost and found

This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79.'. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd?s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi?s elegy on the victims. 14), any of which may have been illustrated in this relief. Pompeii undoubtedly experienced several earthquakes in its last decades (p. 5) stems from the fact that only one earthquake was reportedly recorded in the written sources (p. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. For example, the dating of the relief found the House of Caecilius Iucundus to a.d.

She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history.Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have. 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. Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year.

In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. But the eruptions are only part of the story.

Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. From the blurb: 'Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year.

The fires of vesuvius pompeii lost and found