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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
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The headings of Mary BeardÂ’s notes give a taste of this astonishing book: Bad Breath, Intestinal Parasites, Performing Monkeys, One-way Streets, Kosher Food, Water Shortages. The Temple of Isis serves to bring in multiculturalism. The House of the Menander tells how a house worked. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. 154 writing tablets from the House of Caecilius Jucundus detail the accounts of its owner. A fast-food joint on the Via dellÂ’ Abbondanza introduces food and drink and diets and street life. These are just a few of the strands that make up an extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by BritainÂ’s leading classicist.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22191 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 360 pages
Editorial Reviews
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A brilliant portrait of "the life of a Roman town" ... [a] wonderful book. --James McConnachie, Sunday Times
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Beard's cheerful scepticism makes her Pompeii more intriguing, more believable, than any version I have read.
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A vivid demonstration that sceptical scholarship can provide as gripping a read as sensationalism ... a learned and fascinating book.
