Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Mary Beard

508 pages first pub 2008 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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. Sh...

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