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The
World of Pompeii
Edited by Pedar Foss, John
J Dobbins
662pp. + CD Rom
Routledge Press, 2007 |
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The
World of Pompeii draws together the vast amount of
data available on Pompeii and allows readers, for the
first time, to see the buried cities of Campania in the
round. Although there is increasing specialisation in
the subject area, leading scholars are brought together
here to provide a comprehensive overview that has not
been available since Mau and Kelsey's Pompeii: its
life and art, published over 100 years ago.
The picture of the settlements under Vesuvius is being
revised by the on-going archaeological work and this volume
details life as lived by the elite to the lower classes,
using the results of the latest discoveries. The volume
is highly illustrated and including a large number of
site maps, this volume provides the most comprehensive
survey of the region available.
Accompanied
by a CD with the most detailed map of Pompeii so far,
this book is instrumental in studying the city in the
ancient world and is an excellent source book for students
of this fascinating and tragic geographic region.
Table
of Contents
PART
1 - BEGINNINGS
Chapter 1: City and Country: an introduction Pietro
Giovanni Guzzo
Chapter 2: History and historical sources Jean-Paul
Descoeudres
Chapter 3: Rediscovery and resurrection Pedar
W. Foss
Chapter 4: The environmental and geomorphological context
of the volcano Haraldur Sigurdson
Chapter 5: Recent work on early Pompeii Paolo
Carafa
Chapter 6: The first sanctuaries Stefano De Caro
Chapter 7: The urban development of the pre-Roman city
Herman Geertman
Chapter 8: Building materials, construction techniques
and chronologies Jean-Pierre Adam
PART 2 - THE COMMUNITY
Chapter 9: Development of Pompeii's public landscape in
the Roman period Roger Ling
Chapter 10: Urban planning, roads, streets and neighbourhood
Carroll William Westfall
Chapter 11: The walls and gates Cristina Chiarmonte
Chapter 12: The forum and its dependencies John
J. Dobbins
Chapter 13: Urban, suburban and rural religion in the
Roman period Alastair M. Small
Chapter
14: Entertainment at Pompeii Christopher Parslow
Chapter 15: The city baths of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Chapter 16: The water system: supply and drainage Gemma
Jansen
PART 3 - HOUSING
Chapter 17: Domestic spaces and activities Penelope
M. Allison
Chapter 18: The development of the Campanian house Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill
Chapter 19: Instrumentum domesticum: a case study
Joanne Berry
Chapter 20: Domestic decoration: painting and the "Four
Styles" Volker Michael Strocka
Chapter 21: Domestic decoration: mosaics and stucco
John R. Clarke
Chapter 22: Real and painted (imitation) marble at Pompeii
J. Clayton Fant
Chapter 23: Houses of region I and II Salvatore
Ciro Nappo
Chapter
24: Select residences in Regions V and IX: early anonymous
domestic architecture Kees Peterse
Chapter 25: Intensification, heterogeneity and power in
the development of insula VI.i Rick
Jones and Damian Robinson
Chapter 26: Rooms with a view: residences built on terraces
along the edge of Pompeii (Regions VI, VII and VIII) Rolf
A. Tybout
Chapter 27: Residences in Herculaneum Jens-Arne
Dickmann
Chapter 28: Villas surrounding Pompeii and Herculaneum
Eric M. Moormann
PART 4 - SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
Chapter 29: Shops and industries Felix Pirson
Chapter 30: Inns and taverns John DeFelice
Chapter 31: Gardens Wilhelmina Jashemski
Chapter 32: The loss of innocence: Pompeian economy and
society between past and present Willem M. Jongman
Chapter 33: Epigraphy and society James Franklin
Chapter
34: Pompeian women Frances Bernstein
Chapter 35: The lives of slaves Michele George
Chapter 36: Pompeian men and women in portrait sculpture
Kathryn E. Welch
Chapter 37: The tombs at Pompeii Sarah
Cormack
Chapter 38: Victims of the cataclysm Estelle
Lazer
Chapter 39: Mining the early published sources: problems
and pitfalls Anne Laidlaw
Index
Editor
Details
John
J. Dobbins is
Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University
of Virginia, USA.
Pedar W. Foss is
Associate Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University,
USA.
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