 Purchase this book from amazon.co.uk Guy de la Bédoyère is a historian with numerous books and television appearances to his credit, including Channel 4’s Time Team, Channel 5’s Pompeii Live, and PBS’s Herculaneum Uncovered. He teaches History and Classical Civilization at Kesteven and Sleaford High School, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. | Cities of Roman Italy
G de la Bédoyère ‘‘... generally up-to-date, well researched, and user-friendly ... likely to be used widely as a textbook’ ’ Alison Cooley, JACT Review The ruins of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia have excited the imagination of scholars and tourists alike since early modern times. The removal of volcanic debris at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the clearance of centuries of accumulated soil and vegetation from the ancient port city of Rome at Ostia, have provided us with the most important evidence for Roman urban life. Work goes on at all three sites to this day, and they continue to produce new surprises. Pompeii is the subject of many accessible and useful books, but much less is available in English for the other two cities. This book is designed for students of classics and archaeology A-level or university courses who need a one-stop introduction to all three sites. Its principal focus is status and identity in Roman cities, and how they were expressed through institutions, public buildings and facilities, private houses and funerary monuments, against a backdrop of the history of the cities, their rise, their destruction, preservation and excavation. The reader is also guided towards other reading material and Internet sites that now offer unprecedented online access to the cities. |
