Pompeii & Herculaneum: Cities of Vesuvius

First published in 1971, this historical survey reconstructs daily life in Pompeii and Herculaneum from the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and from the excavations that followed. Grant describes the two towns' streets, forums, baths, and temples; private houses and suburban villas; paintings, mosaics, and furniture; farms and trades; and public and sexual life as the finds record them. He sets the disaster against earlier seismic shocks and against Pliny's letters. The comparison is between a larger commercial city and a smaller, richer resort buried in mud. The book is classical popular history, not a novel and not an excavation report.

Bound in brown cloth with a design in black and gold. Black slipcase. Single volume issue of Lost Cities of the Ancient World set.