Cities Of Vesuvius

Author : Pamela Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107638119
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Vesuvius written by Pamela Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum has been written especially for the core topic of the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842122198
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Vesuvius written by Michael Grant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum beneath a layer of ash and pumice several metres deep. The disaster was so swift and so complete that, although most of the inhabitants escaped, the materials of their daily lives were preserved intact giving us a near-perfect representation of what life was like in a Roman provincial town of the first century, from the graffiti on the walls to the fruit on the market stalls.The classical historian and pre-eminent communicator Michael Grant shows us these two cities, their arts, trades, public and private life, their squares and temples, pubs and brothels after nineteen hundred years frozen in death.

Author : Fergus Mason
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1629171344
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pompeii written by Fergus Mason and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii was one of most advanced cities of its time; it had a complex water system, gymnasium, and an amphitheater. Despite it's advancements, there was one thing it wasn't ready for: Mount Vesuvius—the volcano that led to its ultimate doom. The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of the worst disasters in all of European history. In a near instant, over 15,000 people were dead and a city was completely destroyed. This book looks at the rise, fall, and rediscovery of the great city of Pompeii.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Vesuvius written by Michael Grant and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Fletcher Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Buried Cities of Vesuvius written by John Fletcher Horne and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744411
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fires of Vesuvius written by Mary Beard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. 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. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. 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. 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 resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. 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. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Vesuvius written by Michael Grant and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060751002
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Vesuvius written by Charles R. Pellegrino and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns – and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath. The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'.

Author : Sean Cocco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923711
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching Vesuvius written by Sean Cocco and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and naturalists in the late Renaissance to the early 18th-century philosophizing on volcanoes and the development of geology later in the century.

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Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788870626865
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Att Återupptäcka Pompeji, Suédois written by and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: