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Mary Beard: Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire.

ISBN:	9781861975966
Author:	Mary Beard
Page:	360
Binding:	Soft cover
Publication date:	2009
Format:	Book
Publisher:	PROFILE BOOKS
Language:	English

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Price: 4 725 Ft

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This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population.

An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

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