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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Book

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.Read More

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    Pompeii explodes a number of myths - from the very date of the eruption probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels most likely only one to the massive death count which was probably less than ten per cent of the population. Street Life Earning a Living: Baker Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city) The Pleasure of the Body: Food Wine Sex and Baths these chapter headings give a surprising insight into the workings of a Roman town. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. A fast-food joint on the Via dell' Abbondanza introduces food and drink and diets and street life. These are just a few of the strands that make up an extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town its life and its continuing re-discovery by Britain's leading classicist.

  • Foyles

    WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail 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. 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.

  • BookDepository

    Pompeii : Paperback : Profile Books Ltd : 9781861975966 : : 16 Jul 2009 : Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.

  • 1861975961
  • 9781861975966
  • Mary Beard
  • 16 July 2009
  • Profile Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
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