Returns to Pompeii

by Shelley Hales
Returns to Pompeii
Author: Shelley Hales
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016
Genre: Art, Roman
ISBN: 9789170421839
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This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city?s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples, and in the far-off European periphery, represented by Denmark and Sweden.

Returns to Pompeii

by Shelley Hales
Returns to Pompeii
Author: Shelley Hales
Publisher:
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2016
Genre: Interior decoration
ISBN: 9789170421839
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This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city?s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples, and in the far-off European periphery, represented by Denmark and Sweden.

New Pompeii

by Daniel Godfrey
New Pompeii
Author: Daniel Godfrey
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178329812X
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Jurassic Park meets Gladiator in this “irresistibly entertaining” sci-fi adventure set in a world in which technology can transport people from the past to present day (Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi Blog) In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption. Nick Houghton doesn’t know why he’s been chosen to be the company’s historical advisor. He’s just excited to be there. Until he starts to wonder what happened to his predecessor. Until he realizes that the company has more secrets than even the conspiracy theorists suspect. Until he realizes that they have underestimated their captives.

Pompeii

by Pier Giovanni Guzzo
Pompeii
Author: Pier Giovanni Guzzo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:
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The Lost World of Pompeii

by Colin Amery
The Lost World of Pompeii
Author: Colin Amery
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2002
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN: 9780892366873
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"Richly illustrated with historical images and new images of the site by acclaimed photographer Chris Caldicott, The Lost World of Pompeii tells the fascinating story of the ghosts of a bygone era raised from the ashes."--BOOK JACKET.

Pompeii's Ashes

by Eric Moormann
Pompeii's Ashes
Author: Eric Moormann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614518734
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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 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.

I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived #10)

by Lauren Tarshis
I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived #10)
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545662869
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The beast beneath the mountain is restless... No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?

Pompeii

by Alberto Carlo Carpiceci
Pompeii
Author: Alberto Carlo Carpiceci
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9788872043066
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Includes 150 colour photos, 36 reconstructions and drawings and a map of the excavations.

Pompeii

by Alex Butterworth
Pompeii
Author: Alex Butterworth
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466860642
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***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print book.*** 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, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal 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, Pompeii recreates 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.