The fires of Vesuvius
Subtitle: Pompeii lost and found
By: Mary Beard
Edition: 1st Harvard Press University paperback ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780674045866
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Religious life and customs
Description: Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. 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. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Living in an old city; title: Street life; title: House and home; title: Painting and decorating; title: Earning a living : baker, banker and garum maker; title: Who ran the city?; title: The pleasures of the body : food, wine, sex and baths; title: Fun and games; title: A city full of gods.