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POMPEII ALSO BY MARY BEARD Religions of Rome (with John North and Simon Price) The Invention of Jane Harrison The Parthenon The Colosseum (with Keith Hopkins) The Roman Triumph POMPEII The Life of a Roman Town MARY BEARD This paperback edition published in 2009 First published in 2008 by PROFILE BOOKS LTD 3A Exmouth House Pine Street London EC1R OJH www.profilebooks.com 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bookmarque Ltd, Croydon, Surrey Typeset in Fournier by MacGuru Ltd [email protected] The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 1 86197 596 6 CONTENTS Plan of Pompeii Introduction Chapter 1 Living in an Old City Chapter 2 Street Life Chapter 3 House and Home Chapter 4 Painting and Decorating Chapter 5 Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker Chapter 6 Who Ran the City? Chapter 7 The Pleasures of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths Chapter 8 Fun and Games Chapter 9 A City Full of Gods Epilogue Making a Visit Further Reading Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Illustrations
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