Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum

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Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the ho...more

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Published July 8th 1996 by Princeton University Press (first published March 1st 1994)

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