In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer /5(36). The result was an amalgam of unrealistic expectations and journeys to Africa that rarely exceeded expectations. The long shadow of colonization and its tragic consequences stalk the book’s pages. Liberia and, to some extent, Sierra Leone show there was a Estimated Reading Time: 10 mins. In Pompeii: The Living City, the authors, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence, focus on recreating what the bustling society looked like. The authors’ backgrounds helped them to literarily construct the historical society of the ancient city of Pompeii. Butterworth is a dramatist/5.
Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the latest research into Pompeii to bring this period of flux and instability back to life. By concentrating on key members from each strata of Pompeiian society we are plunged into the everyday life of a city rebuilding itself, in the knowledge that it will all be for nothing when Vesuvius erupts. The thriving ancient port city of Pompeii was memorably destroyed and its 20, to 30, inhabitants killed in A.D. 79 by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Archeologists have dug parts of the city ou. Pompeii: The Living City. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. Weidenfeld, pp. , £.
Pompeii: The Living City - Kindle edition by Butterworth, Alex, Laurence, Ray. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pompeii: The Living City. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster, Pompeii recreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth. ALEX BUTTERWORTH and RAY LAURENCE are popular historians living in Britain. In Pompeii: The Living City, the authors, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence, focus on recreating what the bustling society looked like. The authors’ backgrounds helped them to literarily construct the historical society of the ancient city of Pompeii. Butterworth is a dramatist and historian, and Laurence is a professor of ancient history.
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