Name: Pompeii (en Inglés)
Price: 23.13 USD
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Author: Alex Butterworth; Ray Laurence
ISBN: 9780753820766

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

W&N

Autor

Alex Butterworth; Ray Laurence

Categoría

Historia

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

448

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780753820766

Pompeii (en Inglés)

Alex Butterworth; Ray Laurence (Autor) · W&N · Tapa Blanda

Libro Físico

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Reseña del libro "Pompeii (en Inglés)"

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which has become part of our collective popular imagination. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the latest research into Pompeii to bring this period of flux and instability back to life. By concentrating on key members from each strata of Pompeiian society we are plunged into the everyday life of a city rebuilding itself, in the knowledge that it will all be for nothing when Vesuvius erupts. So we follow Suedius Clemens who has been sent by Vespasian to settle disputes over land; Decimus Satrius Lucretius Valens who is set to join Pompeii's elite magistrates following the death of his protector; the Vettii brothers who were fabulously rich and ostentacious dealers in wine and perfume; Pherusa, the runaway slave; lusty young Rustus who is contemplating parricide...