The World of Pompeii

1. City and country: an introduction
2. History and historical sources
3. Rediscovery and resurrection
4. The environmental and geomorphological context of the volcano
5. Recent work on early Pompeii
6. The first sanctuaries
7. The urban development of the pre-Roman city
8. Building materials, construction techniques and chronologies
9. Development of Pompeii’s public landscape in the Roman period
10. Urban planning, roads, streets and neighborhoods
11. The walls and gates
12. The forum and its dependencies
13. Urban, suburban and rural religion in the Roman period
14. Entertainment at Pompeii
15. The city baths of Pompeii and Herculaneum
16. The water system: supply and drainage
17. Domestic spaces and activities
18. The development of the Campanian house
19. Instrumentum domesticum—a case study
20. Domestic decoration: painting and the “Four Styles”
21. Domestic decoration: mosaics and stucco
22. Real and painted (imitation) marble at Pompeii
23. Houses of Regions I and II
24. Select residences in Regions V and IX: early anonymous domestic architecture
25. Intensification, heterogeneity and power in the development of insula VI.1
26. Rooms with a view: residences built on terraces along the edge of Pompeii (Regions VI, VII and VIII)
27. Residences in Herculaneum
28. Villas surrounding Pompeii and Herculaneum
29. Shops and industries
30. Inns and taverns
31. Gardens
32. The loss of innocence: Pompeian economy and society between past and present
33. Epigraphy and society
34. Pompeian women
35. The lives of slaves
36. Pompeian men and women in portrait sculpture
37. The tombs at Pompeii
38. Victims of the cataclysm
39. Mining the early published sources: problems and pitfalls

This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the up-to-date findings of recent archaeological work. Accompanied by a CD with the most detailed map of Pompeii so far, this book is instrumental in studying the city in the ancient world and is an excellent source book for students of this fascinating and tragic geographic region.