A synthesis of recent work in archaeology and social history, drawing on physical, literary, and documentary sources.

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In twenty-four lectures on Pompeii, eminent classicist and Professor Steven L. Tuck resurrects the long-lost lives of aristocrats, merchants, slaves, and other

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