Pompeii The Living City

The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Butterworth and Laurence marshall cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer volcano. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster,Pompeiirecreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth.Butterworth, Alex is the author of 'Pompeii The Living City', published 2006 under ISBN 9780312355852 and ISBN 0312355858.