Alison E. Cooley: Pompeii
Pompeii
Buch
- Herausgeber: Thomas Harrison, Duncan Garrow
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 10/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781350125223
- Bestellnummer: 11123728
- Umfang: 208 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23002
- Auflage: 2nd edition
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 234 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.10.2023
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Klappentext
This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago.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.
Biografie (Alison E. Cooley)
Alison E. Cooley is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on topics relating to Roman epigraphy. She has edited three books and most recently published an edition and commentary on the 'queen of inscriptions', Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Cambridge University Press, 2009). She has taught epigraphy to postgraduates attending the British Epigraphy Society's international summer school, as well as at Oxford and Warwick. She is also a member of the team producing quinquennial survey articles on inscriptions and Roman studies for the Journal of Roman Studies.Biografie (Thomas Harrison)
Thomas Harrison ist Professor für Alte Geschichte und Klassische Archäologie. Er leitet den Fachbereich Archäologie, Altertumswissenschaft und Ägyptologie der University of Liverpool. Zu seinen Spezialgebieten gehören die griechische und römische Geschichtsschreibung. Alison E. Cooley
Pompeii
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