Alison E. Cooley, M. G. L. Cooley

Pompeii and Herculaneum (eBook, ePUB)

A Sourcebook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer and more diverse picture of urban life on the Bay of Naples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134624560
• Artikelnr.: 39681131

Autorenporträt

Alison E. Cooley is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Pompeii. An Archaeological Site History (2003), a translation, edition and commentary of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti (2009), and The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012).

M.G.L. Cooley teaches Classics and is Head of Scholars at Warwick School. He is Chairman and General Editor of the LACTOR sourcebooks, and has edited three volumes in the series: The Age of Augustus (2003), Cicero's Consulship Campaign (2009) and Tiberius to Nero (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1.
Pre-Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum 2. The Social War and its Aftermath 3.
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum 4. Leisure 5. Religion 6. Politics
and Public Life 7. Law and Society 8. Commercial Life Appendix 1: Known
dates of games at Pompeii and outside Appendix 2: Tablet showing quotations
from literature found written on the walls of Pompeii Appendix 3: A guide
to monetary values Appendix 4: Brief list of dates of relevance to Pompeii
and Herculaneum Glossary Further Reading Bibliography Index