Pompeii
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12522-3 (ISBN)
Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the town are familiar all around the world. However, even today our picture of the site is being impacted by new archaeological discoveries. This book focuses particularly on the date of the eruption, the natural environment of Pompeii, the recovery of skeletal remains and plaster casts, and Pompeii in the popular imagination. In addition, three new chapters look at the popularization of Pompeii, archaeological reconstruction of the Roman town, and how we know what we know about the people who lived there.
The technological advances of the 20th and 21st centuries have transformed our understanding of the urban environment of Pompeii, raising new questions even as they dig ever deeper into the surviving material evidence. This volume offers a succinct and insightful exploration of the impact of these scientific and archaeological innovations, as well as that of contemporary politics, upon interpretations of Pompeii over the last 250 years, including the ways in which advances in volcanology have transformed our picture of its last moments.
Alison E. Cooley is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her many publications include Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (with M. G. L. Cooley; 2nd edn, 2014) and, as editor, A Companion to Roman Italy (2016).
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Destruction of Pompeii
2. A Broken Sleep
3. The Re-awakening
4. The Politics of Archaeology
5. The Popularization of Pompeii
6. The People of Pompeii
7. Rebuilding Pompeii
Notes
Further Reading
Glossary
Timeline
Key figures in the history of Pompeii’s excavation
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Archaeological Histories |
| Zusatzinfo | 34 bw illus and 10 colour illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-12522-9 / 1350125229 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-12522-3 / 9781350125223 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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