Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

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Part of the problem is that the city's population was not, as Doctor Who suggested, wiped out in a single day amid a wholly unanticipated cataclysm. On the contrary: all but the brave or foolhardy had already fled their homes before the climactic pyroclastic surge descended from Vesuvius to entomb the remaining Pompeiians for good. The implications of this for archaeologists and historians, as Beard makes clear in a typically invigorating chapter, are profound: for what we have frozen in Pompeii is not a scene from everyday life, but rather a place that was already well on its way to becoming a ghost town. The denuded character of the houses bears witness less to a taste for minimalism, than to wholesale evacuation. Laity, Interview by Paul (10 November 2007). "A life in writing: Mary Beard, Britain's best-known classicist". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 October 2020. There’s a recent vogue for retelling the stories of the sidelined women of classical history and literature. Does reimagining their lives help or hinder our understanding of the period? The Fires of Vesuvius] offered me a wealth of riveting information on the vanished city, written with clarity, wit and a detective’s eye for solving conundrums. ” —Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement

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It is recommended to get closer to Vesuvius itself, so that one can try and imagine (impossible to do really) the magnitude of the explosion, since it tore open the mountain. The shape we see now is not how it was. Of course, while being near to the crater one cannot help but feeling a bit antsy, since it is an active volcano and one of the most dangerous ones, but then I have swum in the Pinatubo crater and the gods protected me.

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You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. Beautifully illustrated by Ella Beech, this magical Folio Society edition of Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas will delight readers of all ages. Career 1984 Appointed fellow of Newnham College; 1985 Rome in the Late Republic; 1992 Appointed classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement; 2000 The Invention of Jane Harrison; 2004 Appointed professor of classics at Cambridge; 2007 The Roman Triumph; 2008 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At 18 she sat the then-compulsory entrance exam and interview for Cambridge University, to win a place at Newnham College, a single-sex college. [7] She had considered King's, but rejected it when she learned the college did not offer scholarships to women. [7] Bernardine Evaristo. I first came across her when she wrote this novel in poetry called The Emperor’s Babe, and I thought, who’s going to write a novel about Roman history in verse, this could be terrible – but my eyes opened and it was brilliant. Ever after I’ve thought she was great.

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Peter Benchley’s Jaws is the ultimate pulp thriller, and this is the ultimate illustrated edition. Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction.Defiant British Museum appoints Mary Beard as trustee". The Guardian. 28 March 2020 . Retrieved 5 December 2022. Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim.

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Greece in 'preliminary' talks with British Museum about Parthenon marbles". The Guardian. 3 December 2022 . Retrieved 4 December 2022– via www.theguardian.com. a b Mead, Rebecca (25 August 2014). "The Troll Slayer". The New Yorker . Retrieved 3 December 2017.One of the puzzles of Pompeii is where the kids went to school. No obvious school buildings or classrooms have been found. The likely answer is that teachers took their class of boys (and almost certainly only boys) to some convenient shady portico and did their teaching there. A wonderful series of paintings of scenes of life in the Forum seems to show exactly that happening – with one poor miscreant being given a nasty beating in front of his classmates. And the curriculum? To judge from the large number of quotes from Virgil’s Aeneid scrawled on Pompeian walls, the young were well drilled in the national epic. Bomb threat tweet sent to classicist Mary Beard". BBC News. 4 August 2013 . Retrieved 29 January 2017. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern ( Princeton University Press, 2021) ISBN 978-0691222363 Mary Beard with a statue of the Emperor Constantine in Rome while filming with the BBC. Photograph: Caterina Turroni/BBC Beard has been a Labour Party member and describes herself as having a socialist disposition, being a committed feminist and an anti-racist. [97] [98] [99] [100] [101]