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The World of Pompeii draws together the vast amount of data available on Pompeii and allows readers, for the first time, to see the buried cities of Campania in the round. Although there is increasing specialisation in the subject area, leading scholars are brought together here to provide a comprehensive overview that has not been available since Mau and Kelsey's Pompeii: its life and art, published over 100 years ago.

The picture of the settlements under Vesuvius is being revised by the on-going archaeological work and this volume details life as lived by the elite to the lower classes, using the results of the latest discoveries. The volume is highly illustrated and including a large number of site maps, this volume provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available.

Accompanied by a CD with the most detailed map of Pompeii so far, this book is instrumental in studying the city in the ancient world and is an excellent source book for students of this fascinating and tragic geographic region.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1 - Beginnings

Chapter 1: City and Country: an introduction (Pietro Giovanni Guzzo)
Chapter 2: History and historical sources (Jean-Paul Descoeudres)
Chapter 3: Rediscovery and resurrection (Pedar W. Foss)
Chapter 4: The environmental and geomorphological context of the volcano (Haraldur Sigurdson)
Chapter 5: Recent work on early Pompeii (Paolo Carafa)
Chapter 6: The first sanctuaries (Stefano De Caro)
Chapter 7: The urban development of the pre-Roman city (Herman Geertman)
Chapter 8: Building materials, construction techniques and chronologies (Jean-Pierre Adam)

PART 2 - The Community

Chapter 9: Development of Pompeii's public landscape in the Roman period (Roger Ling)
Chapter 10: Urban planning, roads, streets and neighbourhood (Carroll William Westfall)
Chapter 11: The walls and gates (Cristina Chiarmonte)
Chapter 12: The forum and its dependencies (John J. Dobbins)
Chapter 13: Urban, suburban and rural religion in the Roman period (Alastair M. Small)
Chapter 14: Entertainment at Pompeii (Christopher Parslow)
Chapter 15: The city baths of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow)
Chapter 16: The water system: supply and drainage (Gemma Jansen)

PART 3 - Housing

·Chapter 17: Domestic spaces and activities (Penelope M. Allison)
Chapter 18: The development of the Campanian house (Andrew Wallace-Hadrill)
Chapter 19: Instrumentum domesticum: a case study (Joanne Berry)
Chapter 20: Domestic decoration: painting and the "Four Styles" (Volker Michael Strocka)
Chapter 21: Domestic decoration: mosaics and stucco (John R. Clarke)
Chapter 22: Real and painted (imitation) marble at Pompeii (J. Clayton Fant)
Chapter 23: Houses of region I and II (Salvatore Ciro Nappo)
Chapter 24: Select residences in Regions V and IX: early anonymous domestic architecture (Kees Peterse)
Chapter 25: Intensification, heterogeneity and power in the development of insula VI.i (Rick Jones and Damian Robinson)
Chapter 26: Rooms with a view: residences built on terraces along the edge of Pompeii (Regions VI, VII and VIII) (Rolf A. Tybout)
Chapter 27: Residences in Herculaneum (Jens-Arne Dickmann)
Chapter 28: Villas surrounding Pompeii and Herculaneum (Eric M. Moormann)

PART 4 - Society and Economy

Chapter 29: Shops and industries (Felix Pirson)
Chapter 30: Inns and taverns (John DeFelice)
Chapter 31: Gardens (Wilhelmina Jashemski)
Chapter 32: The loss of innocence: Pompeian economy and society between past and present (Willem M. Jongman)
Chapter 33: Epigraphy and society (James Franklin)
Chapter 34: Pompeian women (Frances Bernstein)
Chapter 35: The lives of slaves (Michele George)
Chapter 36: Pompeian men and women in portrait sculpture (Kathryn E. Welch)
Chapter 37: The tombs at Pompeii (Sarah Cormack)
Chapter 38: Victims of the cataclysm (Estelle Lazer)
Chapter 39: Mining the early published sources: problems and pitfalls (Anne Laidlaw)

EDITOR DETAILS

John J. Dobbins is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia, USA.
Pedar W. Foss is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University, USA.