From Pompeii : : The Afterlife of a Roman Town /

From Pompeii : : The Afterlife of a Roman Town / / Ingrid D. Rowland.

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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Rowland, Ingrid D.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 40 halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map
  • Introduction: Naples, 1962
  • 1 Pompeii, May 2013
  • 2 The Blood of San Gennaro and the Eruption of Vesuvius
  • 3 Before Pompeii: Kircher and Holste
  • 4 Mr. Freeman Goes to Herculaneum
  • 5 The Rediscover y of Pompeii
  • 6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 7 Further Excavations
  • 8 Karl Bryullov
  • 9 Railway Tourism
  • 10 Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
  • 11 Giuseppe Fiorelli, the “Pope” of Pompeii
  • 12 Bartolo Longo
  • 13 The Social Role of Tourist Cameos
  • 14 Pierre- Auguste Renoir
  • 15 The Legacy of August Mau
  • 16 Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan
  • 17 Don Amedeo Maiuri
  • 18 Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman
  • 19 Autobus Gran Turismo
  • Coda: Atomic Pizza
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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