Pompeii: An Architectural History

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Summary: Dry, But Scholarly: An Important Architectural Survey
Review: First, a warning: do not buy this book if you're thinking of curling up by the fire at home during the weekend, lying back, and learning about the colorful and exotic world of ancient Pompeii and foreign Roman society via colorful and provocative pictures of ruins and paintings.

This book is purely an architectural study. But it's material like this that's used by other writers to scribe the interesting books with lotsa pictures. Hey, I didn't enjoy reading it during my Pompeii class, I probably wouldn't have read it at all if the Prof hadn't assigned it, but it helped me to familiarize the city of Pompeii and its principal ruins. And I'm not saying that I did great in the class either, but the book helped.

There are no pictures. But anyone who's REALLY interested in Pompeii should read this.

Also, buy the paperback: it's much less expensive and easier to carry. Peace.