The Fires of Vesuvius - Pompeii Lost and Found

Informationen zum Autor Mary Beard has a Chair of Classics at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement and author of the blog “A Don’s Life.” She is also a winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize. Klappentext Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Here, acclaimed historian Beard explores what kind of town it was, and what it can reveal about "ordinary" life there.

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• Authors: Mary Beard, Beard Mary
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674045866
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04586-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; History, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / History / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE