Book chapter
Pompeian Women: Agents in Life and Death
Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World, pp.153-169
Women in ancient cultures, Liverpool University Press
2024
DOI: 10.2307/jj.13524438.8
Abstract
Pompeii was a rather typical Roman town in Italy that was made remarkable by its extraordinary state of preservation. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, so much ash and lapilli was spewed into the air that much of Pompeii was buried within 24 hours. This catastrophic end transformed this regional town of about 30,000 people into one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.¹ From the clothes worn by those men, women, and children unable to flee to the loaves of bread left behind in a bakery’s oven, the eruption preserved evocative material evidence for daily life
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pompeian Women: Agents in Life and Death
- Creators
- Brenda Longfellow
- Contributors
- GREG Gilles (Editor)KAROLINA Frank (Editor)CHRISTINE Plastow (Editor)LEWIS Webb (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World, pp.153-169
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press; Liverpool
- Series
- Women in ancient cultures
- DOI
- 10.2307/jj.13524438.8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design; Classics; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984658254502771
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