Main entry:

Deiss, Joseph Jay.

Title & Author:

Herculaneum, Italy's buried treasure / Joseph Jay Deiss.

Edition:

Rev. and updated ed.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, ©1985.

Description:

xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index.
Life of a Roman town -- Origins and legends -- Death of a Roman town -- The long sleep, and resurrection -- Treasure revealed: the great dig -- Houses of the rich patricians -- Roman luxury: the Villa of the Papyri -- Houses of the "poor" patricians -- Story of a Roman lawsuit -- Houses of the middle class -- The plebs: houses and shops -- The baths: everybody's club -- Sports: the Palaestra -- The Basilica: a Roman courthouse -- Curtain time: the theater -- Main street and the Forum area -- The dead reveal their lives -- Antiquity's treasure troves.

Summary:

At noontime on August 24, A.D. 79, the tranquil mountain of Vesuvius exploded with a force ten times as violent as the recent Mt. St. Helen's eruption. Buried under 25 feet of volcanic ash was Pompeii. Buried under 65 feet of pyroclastic avalanche, and sealed as if in plastic, was Pompeii's sister city, Herculaneum.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0060912057 (pbk.)
9780060912055 (pbk.)
0060153768
9780060153762

Subject:

Art, Greco-Roman Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Art gréco-romain Italie Herculanum (Ville ancienne)
Art, Greco-Roman.
Archeologie.
Romeinse oudheid.
Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Herculanum (Ville ancienne)
Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Herculaneum

Holdings:

Location: Library main 96945
Call No.: ID:85-B14641
Status: Available