Pompeii's Ashes focuses on the many ways Pompeii and Herculaneum feature in fiction, drama, music, and cinema and shows how interest in the oldest running archaeological projects in the world continue until now. It begins with an analysis of their excavation history, and continu…
"Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii's Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 an…
The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer a…
Hellenistic Bookhands
Main description: Hellenistic Bookhands dokumentiert die Entwicklung der für antike griechische Buchrollen verwendeten Schrift. An 94 griechischen Papyrustexten aus Ägypten und aus Herculaneum werden die stilistischen Eigenheiten der verschiedenen Schrifttypen herausgearbeitet, …
Pompeji - Herculaneum.
Accompanying CD-ROM includes maps of the Bay of Naples, Pompeii, and Herculaneum in Bitmap, PDF, TIFF, and JPEG files, together with textual notes in PDF and Rich Text files.
Part I. Repopulating the Street -- 1. Street forms, street movements -- 2. Life in the street -- 3. The street's social environment -- Part II. The Street and its Architectural Border -- 4. Sidewalks under siege : houses, owners, and urban context -- 5. House facades and the arc…
In AD 79, the volcano Vesuvius erupted, burying the towns of Pompcii and Herculaneum under ash and rock, and leaving them remarkably well preserved for centuries. While Pompeii has been extensively written about and popularized, the remains of Herculaneum are less widely known, …
