Bibliograph

Pompeii, the living city, Alex Butterworth & Ray Laurence

Type

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Pompeii, the living city, Alex Butterworth & Ray Laurence

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-341) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pompeii

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70660416

Responsibility statement

Alex Butterworth & Ray Laurence

Sub title

the living city

Summary

The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Butterworth and Laurence marshall cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer volcano. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster, Pompeii recreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth. --, Amazon

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The far end of the journey -- 1. Death of a Roman knight -- I. 300 BC-AD 56 -- 2. Seven weeks from Egypt -- II. April AD 58 -- 3. Slaves and the territory -- III. Winter AD 58-59 -- 4. A worthy man, vote for him -- IV. March AD 59-July AD 59 -- 5. No place for idlers -- V. January AD 61 -- 6. Yours for two coins -- VI. January AD 61-AD 62 -- 7. When will our fears be at rest? -- VII. February AD 62-June AD 63 -- 8. Ashes of a jawbone -- VIII. July AD 63-May AD 64 -- 9. A Beryl for Venus -- IX. June AD 64 -- November AD 64 -- 10. The Saturnalia Kings -- X. December AD 64-June AD 68 -- 11. The Year of the Four Emperors -- XI. July AD 69-June AD 75 -- 12. A Feast of Beans -- XII. August AD 79 -- 13. Apocalypse

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