Pompeii's Ashes : : The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama / / Eric Moormann.
Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii's Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 ye...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- I From Treasure Hunting to Archaeological Dig. History of the Excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii
- II Travelers to the Vesuvian Cities
- III Pagan Pompeii in Fiction
- IV Jews and Christians in Pompeii Novels
- V Modern and Contemporary Visits to Pompeii in Fiction: A Perilous Affair
- VI Time Traveling to Ancient Pompeii
- VII Real and Fictional Manuscripts from Pompeii and Herculaneum
- VIII Pompeii on Stage and Screen
- IX Herculaneum Under Vesuvius
- X Intimations of Pompeii: By Way of Envoy
- Bibliography
- Index of Names, Places, and Subjects