Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum by Mary Beard, Michael Grant

Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum

Mary Beard, Michael Grant

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced

240 pages | first published 1971

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"At a tavern in the Via di Nola, gladiators abandoned their...drinks and fled for their lives..." The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 quickly and completely buried all the materials of the inhabitants' daily lives under a sea of ash—ironically, pres...
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