Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Mary Beard

360 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative tense medium-paced
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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 book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very d...

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