Tom Holland

Pompeii’s greatest gifts are not all archeological

A review of Ingrid D. Rowland’s ‘From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town’. The dead city is still capable of changing lives – Ingrid Rowland proves it

Wall painting of a female head, Pompeii, 1st century AD [www.bridgemanart.com]
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  • From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town

    Ingrid D. Rowland

    Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pp. 352

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