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Excellent book sold with pages missing & printed out of sequence
This book is one of the best books ever written on the subject. However -- I paid over $100 for this book from a well known academic publisher. When I got the book it was missing pages. In other parts of the book the pages were there but were out of sequence and placed elsewhere in the book. This is no doubt a mistake of the manufacturing process but it demonstrates the publisher's inability to check products before sale. I have a suspicion that this book represents discarded ones the publisher could not sell on its own web site because they represented faulty manufacturing or printing processes. The seller did not respond to my calls or emails regarding the problem. I literally had to cut the book apart and reassemble it to read it. ... Read more

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Nineteen papers examining varied responses to Romanization, and how this affects our view of the development of the Roman Empire.

The traditional view of the Romanization is as the triumph of a superior and more advanced culture over primitive communities that was brought about by military expansion and which resulted in the creation of a very uniform political and cultural entity. It is only in the last twenty years that the variety of responses that Romanization elicited among the various ethnic groups, social classes, genders, spheres and even within the same person in different conjunctures of his or her life have begun to be appreciated. This new perspective has deep implications for our perception of Roman imperialism. The aim of this collection of papers is to further understanding of Romanization at a formative stage; early Roman expansion in Italy. There is much evidence for bi-directional negotiation between Italian communities and Rome. Understanding the motivation of the Italian peoples to become part of a new political entity is crucial to knowing how Roman Italy was kept together for more than half a millennium. Seven papers also examine responses to Romanization in other areas of the empire. ... Read more

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Comprehensive study of the epigraphic and archaeological evidence for the settlement of Caesar and Augustus's veterans - and of the impact of colonisation on town and countryside in the last years of the Republic. ... Read more

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The fifth conference of Italian archaeologists attracted a large number of scholars to Oxford in December 1992. Seventy people presented papers or posters describing the results of recent excavations and fieldwork, and most of them are published here. The papers have been grouped thematically, as follows: Field Surveys - Methodologies and Results: eight papers on survey methods, landscape archaeology and surveys of the Po Plain and Rome's coastal zone. Religion and Ritual - including Ruth Whitehouse on ritual and social organisation in pre- and proto-historic Italy, M Maaskant-Kleibrink on early Latin cult practices at a 9th to 5th centurty BC site, E Herring "the use of matt-painted pottery in the native tombs of the Salento peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. and articles by Laura Domanico, Massimo Cardosa, Maria Ausilia Fadda, Giuseppina Ghini and Monica G Sorti. Settlement and Economy - J W Bouma et al on the economy of the settlement at Borgo Le Ferriere 800-200 BC.and Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin, Mario Asole, Alba Foschi &Francesco Nieddu, Giovanna Alvino & Simonetta Menchelli, Stefania Fidanza.Settlement and Society - Neil Christie "Late antique cavemen in northern and central Italy and by L Arancio et al., Domenico marino and Silvia Festuccia, Alessandro Usai, Wolf-Rudiger Teegen, Marshall Becker, Enrico Benelli, Ida Caruso, Gianfranco Gazzetti, Umberto Moscatelli, Andrea Staffa, G de Benedittis. New Research in South Etruria -A M B Sestieri "The role of interregional contact in the development of Latial society in the Early Iron Age" and articles by V D'Ercole & F Trucco, Anna De Santis, Vincenzo Antonelli, G Cifani & B Vitali Rosati, Rita Turchetti & Fabio Bartolini, L Caretta et al, C Edwards et al, L De Maria et al. Urbanism - Rome, the Palatine, Mediolanm, Statonia, the Ager Gallicas and Picenus, Abruzzi (P Pensabene et al, Anna Ceresa mori, Gilda Bartolini, Mario Luni, Adele Campanelli, Francesca Bosman). Technology and Trade - Janet DeLaine "The supply of building materials to the city of Rome", and Enrico Pellegrini, M Miari, Albert Nijboer, Andrea Zifferero, Sergio Fontana, Gina Martella, Oliva Menozzi, L Maffeis & M M Negro Ponzi Mancini, Lucia Travaini. ... Read more

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A study of aspects of urban and rural Roman horticulture. Limited by the available evidence, most of the discussion relates to decorative gardens, making use of literary sources and depicions on wall paintings. It is a particularly refreshing subject as gardens are frequently overshadowed by archaeological emphasis on recovering architectural structures. Farrar looks at common types of plants, ornamentation, layout and the evolution of design. ... Read more

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A beautiful struggle
This is a very rich guide to the ruins of Pompeii. The author is, without doubt, a scholar of distinction. The reconstructive drawings are second to none. The layout of the book is beautiful. However, as an introduction to the subject, the book is a struggle. The writing is often turgid, burdened with unnecessary archaeological terminology: The hip bone is connected to the peristyle, the peristyle is connected to the pronaos, the pronaos is connected to the portico, the chalcidicum is connected to the knee bone.... The glossary at the end of the book is hopelessly inadequate - a mere afterthought. The publishers would do well to study the DK Pulishing model and invest the book with a few introductory pages explaining the vast terminology employed throughout the work with architectural diagrams and arrows. It might then be a masterpiece.

good re-creations of the buildings
this is a nice little book with TONS of careful, detailed information.The pictures are a little small, but they are good quality.
What I liked best was the artist's re-creations of what the buildings and the streets would have looked like.Since we get so much of our information about Roman interiors in general from Pompeii, this is really helpful to anyone interested in ancient Rome, not just people touring Pompeii.
A very good value.

An Outstanding Guide to Pompeii
This is a fantastic guide to Pompeii that I took with me on the last visit I made to the city.The book provides an outstanding introduction to Pompeii examining topics such as the water supply, building techniques and city planning.Each page is filled with illustrations. The houses and public buildings are presented section by section - a small diagram of the area on the initial page followed by the buildings in the area.Each house has a diagram with letters identifying the rooms and is illustrated by several photographs of the house and artworks found within.Some of the houses and building, such as the theater, have reconstruction drawings to provide an indication as to how the building probably looked prior to the destruction of Pompeii. The Villa of Mysteries is particularly excellent with a diagram of the famous fresco with color photographs.There also is a helpful glossary in the back of the book.

The guide has a glossy paper cover and is able to withstand heavy use.I know because I dropped the book a couple of times while reading it on site.The guide is also very useful even if you are not contemplating a visit to Pompeii and are just interested in an excellent book about the city and its archaeological treasures.
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The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucial to the formation of the Europe emerging in the later first millennium BC. This book provides a detailed account of its material culture, comparing and contrasting evidence from different geographical zones, and drawing out the essential characteristics of the period. It looks at settlement, burial, economy, technology, trade and transport, warfare, and social and religious life. The result is a comprehensive study that will interest specialists and students, and be accessible to nonspecialists. ... Read more

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The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the Palatine Hill.

The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium presents the most recent discoveries in Rome and its surroundings: princely tombs, inscriptions and patrician houses are included in a complete overview of the subject and the controversies surrounding it. This comprehensively illustrated study fills the need for an accessible English guide to these new discoveries, and in preparation, the author interviewed most of the leading figures in current research on the early periods of Rome. ... Read more

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R.Holloway brings ancient /archaic Rome to modern readers.
As a self-taught student on the history of archaeology in Rome, Prof. Holloway's book is welcomed edition to a long neglected area of research and interest in field of classical archaeology in Rome. Prof. Hollowayworks also illustrates some of the problems both past and presentarchaeologist i.e G.Boni, E. Gjerstad and the yet to be published work ofProf. A. Carandini , whose controversial excavations at the base of thePalatine hill (1985-1990) which Prof. Holloway briefly illustrates thesignificance of Carandini's work. Anyone interested in the field ofclassical archaeology in Rome, and the historyof archaeology on Romeduring the late 19th cent,and the early 20th century, will find this bookboth interesting and enjoyable, especially the illustrations of recentdiscovers in the Roman forum during the past decade. ... Read more