The fires of Vesuvius
Subtitle: Pompeii lost and found
By: Mary Beard.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780674029767
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city); Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs; Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Social conditions; Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Religious life and customs
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.