Pompeii

US$95

Introduced By Ferdinand Mount

In this award-winning history, Mary Beard guides us through the daily life of Pompeii, an existence that is far more complex than we might have realised. Lively, exciting and accessible, this book brings us as close as possible to the real Pompeii.

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AuthorProfessor Mary Beard

About the Author

Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge (now emerita) and the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Her books include the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008, Folio 2013), S.P.Q.R. (2015, Folio 2018), Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) and Civilisations: How Do We Look?/The Eye of Faith (2018). Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It’s a Don’s Life (2009) and All in a Don’s Day (2012). Mary Beard is a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded an OBE in 2013 and a damehood in 2018 for services to classical scholarship.

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