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Pompeii The Life of a Roman Town

Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781861975966
Publisert
2009-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
326 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.

Pompeii The Life of a Roman Town

Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
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The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy...Scrutinising and animated in equal measure

- Laura Silverman, Daily Mail

A thoroughly worthy winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, Mary Beard's bedroom-to-boardroom tour of the life of a Roman town is disgracefully enjoyable for such a deeply learned and sceptically debunking book

- Boyd Tonkin, Independent

This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past

- Judith Rice, Guardian

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[A] brilliant portrait...This meticulous, vivid study of life in the town, the winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city

- James McConnachie, Sunday Times

Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life

- Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph

To the vast field of Pompeiana she brings the human touch...This absorbing, inquisitive and affectionate account of Pompeii is a model of its kind. Beard has caught the quick of what was and, in our lives today, remains the same

- Ross Leckie, The Times

Very readable and excellently researched... Beard's clear-sighted and accessible style makes this a compelling look into history

- Alexander Larman, The Observer

If you want to know what really happened in the last days of the petrified city, Beard's meticulous reconstruction will fill you in, scraping away many of your preconceptions as it goes, while her evocative writing will transport you back

Guardian Best Holiday Books

Wonderful piece of scholarship worn lightly and wittily

- Tom Widger, Sunday Tribune

Wittily written...evoking in all who read it the insatiable need to see the town for themselves

- Georgie Durkheim, Catholic Herald

A myth-breaking expedition, grandiose in scale, vibrant in its telling

- Colin Gardiner, Oxford Times

Engaging and defiantly otherworldly

Business Destinations

A learned and fascinating book

Guardian

In this brilliant portrait of the "life in a Roman town", Mary Beard uses the relics buried by the eruption on AD79 to bring everyday Roman culture alive.'

Sunday Times

Compelling

Independent

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
Les mer
Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.
Les mer
The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy...Scrutinising and animated in equal measure
'Much of what you think you know about Pompeii may turn out, on reading this eye-opening book, to be wrong. The town was not full of brothels (Beard counts only one), its water engineering, pace the novelist Robert Harris, was pretty substandard (there may have been aqueducts, but there were no sewers) and the site didn't lie undisturbed until the eighteenth century (many townspeople, for instance, came back soon afterwards to dig up their valuables). Beard, a professor of classics at Cambridge, always wears her learning lightly, and in this outstanding book she has excelled herself, puncturing preconceptions and exposing a whole layer of myth about the world's best-preserved ancient town. The result is an often gripping piece of detective work that also offers a tantalising window into the reality of daily Roman life.' The Sunday Times History books of the year, Andrew Holgate
Les mer

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The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy...Scrutinising and animated in equal measure

- Laura Silverman, Daily Mail

A thoroughly worthy winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, Mary Beard's bedroom-to-boardroom tour of the life of a Roman town is disgracefully enjoyable for such a deeply learned and sceptically debunking book

- Boyd Tonkin, Independent

This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past

- Judith Rice, Guardian

Se alle

[A] brilliant portrait...This meticulous, vivid study of life in the town, the winner of the 2008 Wolfson History Prize, rightly and resolutely focuses on the living city

- James McConnachie, Sunday Times

Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life

- Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph

To the vast field of Pompeiana she brings the human touch...This absorbing, inquisitive and affectionate account of Pompeii is a model of its kind. Beard has caught the quick of what was and, in our lives today, remains the same

- Ross Leckie, The Times

Very readable and excellently researched... Beard's clear-sighted and accessible style makes this a compelling look into history

- Alexander Larman, The Observer

If you want to know what really happened in the last days of the petrified city, Beard's meticulous reconstruction will fill you in, scraping away many of your preconceptions as it goes, while her evocative writing will transport you back

Guardian Best Holiday Books

Wonderful piece of scholarship worn lightly and wittily

- Tom Widger, Sunday Tribune

Wittily written...evoking in all who read it the insatiable need to see the town for themselves

- Georgie Durkheim, Catholic Herald

A myth-breaking expedition, grandiose in scale, vibrant in its telling

- Colin Gardiner, Oxford Times

Engaging and defiantly otherworldly

Business Destinations

A learned and fascinating book

Guardian

In this brilliant portrait of the "life in a Roman town", Mary Beard uses the relics buried by the eruption on AD79 to bring everyday Roman culture alive.'

Sunday Times

Compelling

Independent

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
Les mer
Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.
Les mer
The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy...Scrutinising and animated in equal measure
'Much of what you think you know about Pompeii may turn out, on reading this eye-opening book, to be wrong. The town was not full of brothels (Beard counts only one), its water engineering, pace the novelist Robert Harris, was pretty substandard (there may have been aqueducts, but there were no sewers) and the site didn't lie undisturbed until the eighteenth century (many townspeople, for instance, came back soon afterwards to dig up their valuables). Beard, a professor of classics at Cambridge, always wears her learning lightly, and in this outstanding book she has excelled herself, puncturing preconceptions and exposing a whole layer of myth about the world's best-preserved ancient town. The result is an often gripping piece of detective work that also offers a tantalising window into the reality of daily Roman life.' The Sunday Times History books of the year, Andrew Holgate
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781861975966
Publisert
2009-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
326 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.

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