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Mary Beard is Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has worldwide academic acclaim. Her previous books include Confronting the Classics, SPQR and most recently, Women & Power and Emperor of Rome. She has made numerous television series and her books have been published in over thirty languages.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
[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
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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