Reseña del libro "The Buried City (en Inglés)"
This is Pompeii, as you've never seen it before.
In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has been excavated for the first time. Now, drawing on these astonishing discoveries, The Buried City reveals the untold human stories that are at last emerging.
Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.
The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.
'[Gabriel] has written an essential read for anyone interested in this extraordinary place - or indeed anyone interested in running an organisation with baggage. He has a light touch, yet is philosophically challenging.' - TELEGRAPH
'A fascinating new book about what we are still learning about this most haunting of all lost cities... the discoveries will continue for many years yet. And they can be as deeply moving as any film or novel.' - Christopher Hart, MAIL ON SUNDAY
'This is not just the best book on Pompeii I've ever read - it's the best book on the glorious realities of archaeology itself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel will surely inspire a whole new generation in the field with his blend of knowledge, experience and boundless passion. It has left me panting to revisit Pompeii with the new, excited eyes that this magnificent book has given me.' - STEPHEN FRY
'Zuchtriegel makes the familiar magical. He challenges us to transform our relationship with the past, and shows us a new, far more satisfying, way to think about Pompeii and its people.' - DAN SNOW
A brilliant account of the latest discoveries at Pompeii and a deeply personal celebration of the inherent fascination of antiquity. - TOM HOLLAND, author of PAX and DOMINION
Fantastic! Hugely informative, clever, thoughtful and playful - NATALIE HAYNES, author of DIVINE MIGHT and PANDORA'S JAR
In The Buried City, the director of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, reveals the latest archaeological finds to show what life was like in AD79 before Vesuvius erupted...What is special about Pompeii, Zuchtriegel says, is not its temples or theatres but its workshops, taverns, baths and bordellos, the unmade beds and uneaten meals, the lives, high and low, interrupted suddenly when the mountain exploded. All human life is there... Zuchtriegel speaks up for the under-privileged, including today... fascinating and well argued. - THE TIMES
