The world of Pompeii
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The world of Pompeii
（The Routledge worlds）
Routledge, 2008
- pbk
Available at 2 libraries
Note
First published 2007, first published in paperback 2008
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Comprehensive, well illustrated chapters written by experts in their field. This important site has not received such a full and in-depth treatment for over a hundred years
Will be instrumental in teaching about the city in the ancient world. There is no finer site to illustrate the complexities of the Roman city
This book will be a one volume reference for all aspects of Pompeii, from architecture, building techniques, art, social structure and Pompeii's relationship with the surrounding country side
Free CD-ROM containing the most comprehensive map of Pompeii and its environs available
Table of Contents
Part 1: Beginnings 1. An Orientation to the Cities and Countryside 2. History and Historical Sources 3. Rediscovery and Resurrection 4. The Environmental and Geomorphological Context 5. Recent Work on Early Pompeii 6. The First Sanctuaries 7. Early Urban Development 8. Building Materials, Construction Methods, and Chronologies. Appendix: A Note on Roman Concrete (Opus Caementicium) and Other Wall Construction Part 2: The Community 9. Development of Pompeii's Public Landscape in the Roman Period 10. Urban Planning, Roads, Streets and Neighborhood 11. The Walls and Gates 12. The Forum and its Dependencies 13. Urban, Suburban and Rural Religion in the Roman Period 14. Amphitheatre, Palaestra, and Entertainment Complexes 15. The City Baths 16. The Water System - Supply and Drainage Part 3: Housing 17. Domestic Spaces and Activities 18. The Development of the Campanian House 19. Instrumentum Domesticum - A Case Study 20. Domestic Decoration. Paintings and the 'Four Styles' 21. Domestic Decoration. Mosaics and Stucco 22. Real and Painted (Imitation) Marble at Pompeii 23. Houses of Regions I and II 24. Regions V and IX. Early Anonymous Domestic Architecture 25. The Creation of the House of the Vestals (VI16-8) 26. Rooms with a View. Residences Built on Terraces (Regions VI-VIII) 27. Residences in Herculaneum 28. Villas Surrounding Pompeii and Herculaneum Part 4: Society and Economy 29. Shops and Industries 30. Inns and Taverns 31. Gardens 32. The Loss of Innocence. Pompeian Economy and Society 33. Epigraphy and Society 34. Pompeian Women 35. The Lives of Slaves 36. Pompeian Men and Women in Portrait Sculpture 37. The Tombs at Pompeii 38. Victims of the Cataclysm 39. Early Published Sources for Pompeii
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