Pompeii: The Living City.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Leach, Eleanor Winsor | Copyright information

Pompeii: The Living City. By Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. (New York, N.Y.: St Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 354. $27.95.)

In claiming reanimation of the Vesuvius-buried city, this book's title does not deceive. The authors pay tribute in their introduction to the two and a half centuries of excavation and interpretation that have accumulated the informational resources on which they base their own "microhistorical" narrative aiming to present "a story of life as ...

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