Pompeii: The Living City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: November 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Pompeii: The Living City. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 354 pages. ISBN 0-297-64560-9. The aim of this book is to bring together the vast amount of archaeological and historical work done hitherto not just on the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 but on 'life as it was lived, in all its strangeness, during the troublesome twenty-five years' before that. Pompeii continues to attract because of its sudden disappearance. Ironica...

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