Pompeii

This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's introduction to Pompeii incorporates new theories and discoveries since the first edition, focusing on the eruption's date, natural environment, skeletal remains, plaster casts, and popular imagination. Three new chapters explore the popularization of Pompeii, archaeological reconstruction, and the knowledge of its inhabitants. Technological advances have transformed our understanding of Pompeii, raising new questions and providing insight into the town's last moments.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago.

Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the town are familiar all around the world. However, even today, our picture of the site is being impacted by new archaeological discoveries. This book focuses particularly on the date of the eruption, the natural environment of Pompeii, the recovery of skeletal remains and plaster casts, and Pompeii in the popular imagination. In addition, three new chapters look at the popularization of Pompeii, archaeological reconstruction of the Roman town, and how we know what we know about the people who lived there.

The technological advances of the 20th and 21st centuries have transformed our understanding of the urban environment of Pompeii, raising new questions even as they dig ever deeper into the surviving material evidence. This volume offers a succinct and insightful exploration of the impact of these scientific and archaeological innovations, as well as that of contemporary politics, upon interpretations of Pompeii over the last 250 years, including the ways in which advances in volcanology have transformed our picture of its last moments.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 236 x 157 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350125216
Edition number: 2 ed