In Ritual, pioneering scientist Dimitris Xygalatas leads an enlightening tour through one of the most shadowy realms of human behaviour. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Para obtener la mejor experiencia en nuestro sitio, asegúrese de activar Javascript en su navegador.

Here, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains, painting an exhaustive portrait of an ancient town. During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. D. 79, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of what life was like during the reign of the Roman Empire.

Overwhelmingly patriarchal (and scattering penis symbols everywhere), obsessed with social status, often brutal, but also diverse and fascinating. So much of Pompeii's impact is visual, which is why I would also recommend books with plenty of photos of the site, its buildings, frescoes and objects, all of which build a picture of daily life in the town.

While exploring Vesuvius on his own, Attilius discovers Exomnius's corpse in a pit of earth choked by noxious fumes, which also kills Corax, who has come to assassinate Attilius.

The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy . Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius. It’s also the first in any language to provide a complete survey of the tombs of Pompeii and the first to situate Pompeian differences within a wider Roman burial context. The incident of Ampliatus feeding a slave to his eels is based on the actual historical case of Vedius Pollio.