![]() ![]() But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. ![]() Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi s elegy on the victims. ![]() At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She explores what kind of town it was?more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?and what it can tell us about ordinary life there. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. But the eruptions are only part of the story. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. 1 The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard Click here if your download doesn"t start automaticallyĢ The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. ![]()
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