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Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum has been written especially for the core topic of the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus.
Author : Pamela Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1107638119
Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum has been written especially for the core topic of the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
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Author : Michael Grant
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
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Author : John Fletcher Horne
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2018
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ISBN : 9781108333030
Author : Alex Butterworth
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1466860642
***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print book.*** 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, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal 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.
Author : Michael Grant
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780882252698
Bibliography : p. 83.
Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691244154
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."
Author : Alison E. Cooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134624565
The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer and more diverse picture of urban life on the Bay of Naples. Focusing upon inscriptions and ancient texts, it translates and sets into context a representative sample of the huge range of source material uncovered in these towns. From the labels on wine jars to scribbled insults, and from advertisements for gladiatorial contests to love poetry, the individual chapters explore the early history of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their destruction, leisure pursuits, politics, commerce, religion, the family and society. Information about Pompeii and Herculaneum from authors based in Rome is included, but the great majority of sources come from the cities themselves, written by their ordinary inhabitants – men and women, citizens and slaves. Encorporating the latest research and finds from the two cities and enhanced with more photographs, maps, and plans, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook offers an invaluable resource for anyone studying or visiting the sites.
Author : John Horne
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2024-08
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ISBN : 9783348124133