Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

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Robert Harris's harrowing novel Pompeii illustrates why historical fiction can often inspire readers with more wonder than a nonfiction work does. This radical essay explores patriarchy and capitalism’s impact on beauty ideals, and inspires us to embrace our own disobedient bodies. The last sentence of the novel reports a local legend that a man and woman had emerged from the aqueduct after the eruption, which implies that Attilius and Corelia likely survived the trip up the aqueduct. Classics Illustrated tells this exciting tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.

But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong.It was a place devoted to the pleasures of life, where statues of gods and phalluses were equally popular. TheNotebook by Roland Allen is a gorgeously illustrated cultural history of the humble notebook, from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers. Two academic books I found extremely useful were The Roman Street by Jeremy Hartnett and The Brothel of Pompeii by Sarah Levin-Richardson. if you'd like more information (that is, the real details) about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the best book by far is Vesuvius AD 79 by Ernesto De Carolis and Giovanni Patricelli.

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. I lead the MA Architecture and Adaptive Reuse programme and direct graduate atelier Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. They tell the human and the scientific story of how a woman from a small town in Nebraska learned more about the gardens of Pompeii than anyone thought possible. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television.If you don't want to miss seeing Vesuvius and have decided to take the bus, I recommend taking it from Pompeii to be certain. Tag harbours ambitions to become a gladiator and thus find a way to be freed from slavery, and his opportunity comes when Quintus, a pompous young man seeking to curry his father’s favour, is deemed too vulnerable to train with the other gladiators who would rough him up, and Tag is chosen to train with him. The Satyricon is often claimed to have been set in Pompeii (the action takes place in a town in Campania) and I riffed on a particularly famous chapter to create a lavish dinner party for Amara to attend, but you do need a strong stomach to read some of the book's sex scenes. Books I particularly drew on included Pliny's Natural History , Petronius's Satyricon and Ovid's The Art of Love . To mark Folio’s 75th anniversary, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is published as a magical new edition, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Marie-Alice Harel and bursting with exquisite design details.

I have continued to observe Roman portraits over the years, but admit that I still sometimes find them daunting.It ends where the reader has to make up the rest of the story on their own, but the good news is they survive the volcano.

The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subordinated by Rome, and his nemesis Arbaces the still older culture of Egypt. Few sites offer such a visceral glimpse of history… its citizens and their homes – decoration and all – preserved. These are just a few of the strands that make up an extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain’s leading classicist. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were seduced by the wealth of artefacts and wall paintings yielded by the site. You will enjoy your food more if you plan to eat outside the site in modern Pompeii, which is filled with tourist restaurants and one McDonalds (between the cathedral and the Piazza Anfiteatro entrance).Taking readers on a tour of all of the structure's evidence, including the rarely seen upper floor, she illuminates the subculture housed within its walls. Enormous ones, tiny ones, doubles, singles; attached to men, gods or satyrs in every medium, or in disembodied splendor; over doors, carved into the pavement, on chains and serving trays, turned into lamps, winged like birds, with bells on. These memoirs, illustrated with over 400 photo­graphs, will delight anyone interested in gardens or in the Roman world. Not only is it written in the most engaging style, hooking you from the first page, it is also stuffed with detail.