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Pompeii (Paperback, New Ed)
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Pompeii (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
You Save R84 (21%)
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A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to
life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years
between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all
but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which
has become part of our collective popular imagination. 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. So we follow Suedius Clemens who has been sent by
Vespasian to settle disputes over land; Decimus Satrius Lucretius
Valens who is set to join Pompeii's elite magistrates following the
death of his protector; the Vettii brothers who were fabulously
rich and ostentacious dealers in wine and perfume; Pherusa, the
runaway slave; lusty young Rustus who is contemplating parricide...
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