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Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Readers explore an unexpected catastrophe that would entomb the city of Pompeii for centuries to come. This volume takes readers on a journey to a city preserved in time. Vivid photographs, illustrations, and fun facts will keep the interest of even the most reluctant readers.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history.
Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She...
12) Pompeii
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo ... , a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia ... , a wealthy merchant's daughter who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. ... As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him"--Container....
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity ; 11
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Contains an English translation of three essays originally written in Italian, and later in German, between 1979 and 1993, in which the author examines various aspects of life in the ancient city of Pompeii, discussing townscape and domestic taste, urban space as a reflection of society, and the domestic arts.
15) Pompeii
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
16) Ancient Rome
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Experience the intrigue, scandal, excitement and chaos of the most dominant empire in the history of western civilization as History journeys back to the age of Caesar"--Container.
