Pompeii - Public and Private Life

Pompeii's tragedy is society's windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts readers through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. At home or in public, at work or at ease, the people of Pompeii and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering. It is a provocative and original reading of material culture. 21 color illustrators. 55 halftones.

Info autore

Paul Zanker is Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Munich, and Director of the German Archeological Institute in Rome. He is the author of Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity and The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.

Riassunto

Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture shows us the images that marked Pompeii's development from country town to Roman imperial city. At home or in public, at work or at ease, Pompeians and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Zanker, Zanker Paul
• Con la collaborazione di: Deborah Lucas Schneider (Traduzione), Schneider Deborah Lucas (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.1999
• EAN: 9780674689671
• ISBN: 978-0-674-68967-1
• Peso: 435 g
• Illustrazioni: 113 line illustrations, 15 color illustrations
• Serie: Revealing Antiquity; Revealing Antiquity
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Urban communities, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology