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Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum

Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum

by Michael Grant (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum beneath a layer of ash and pumice several metres deep. The disaster was so swift and so complete that, although most of the inhabitants escaped, the materials of their daily lives were preserved intact giving us a near-perfect representation of what life was like in a Roman provincial town of the first century, from the graffiti on the walls to the fruit on the market stalls. The classical historian and pre-eminent communicator Michael Grant shows us these two cities, their arts, trades, public and private life, their squares and temples, pubs and brothels after nineteen hundred years frozen in death.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 16 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 1842122193
ISBN 13: 9781842122198
Book Overview: The most popular historian of the classical world A thrilling and harrowing account of one of the most famous natural disaster in history Full of unexpected facts, such as the revelation that many of the classical texts which survive to this day do so only because the papyri were 'cooked' in the famous library at Herculaneum allowing them to be preserved for many centuries.

Author Bio
Michael Grant was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University, the first Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He is Doctor of Letters at Cambridge and Honorary Doctor of Letters at Dublin and Belfast respectively. He has also been president of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society, and the Royal Numismatic Society, and is a Medallist of the American Numismatic Society.