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Pompeii: The Living City

Pompeii: The Living City Paperback - 2006

by Butterworth, Alex

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  • Title Pompeii: The Living City
  • Author Butterworth, Alex
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 434
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W&n, London
  • Date May 4, 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001562062
  • ISBN 9780753820766 / 0753820765
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.12 x 1.06 in (19.71 x 13.00 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 937.7

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First line

In July 1738, workmen digging the foundations of a summer palace for Charles of Bourbon, the King of Naples, discovered the first hard evidence of the cities that had been buried by Vesuvius in AD 79.

From the jacket flap

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.