![]() ![]() At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. ![]() She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She explores what kind of town it was-more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?-and what it can tell us about “ordinary” life there. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. But the eruptions are only part of the story. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day.ĭestroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. ![]()
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