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Resurrecting Pompeii

Lazer, Estelle

The human remains at Pompeii have long held a rather ghoulish fascination for visitors, used to create an imaginative human element to the tragedy, almost a diorama in fact, by generations, best exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii. This book explores both this popular enthusiasm, and the fact that it appears to have hindered rather than encouraged scientific study of the skeletal remains, and by arranging the skeletal remains in vignettes and so on, done considerable damage to their usefulness as archaeology. The older popular and pseudo-anthropological approaches are thus contrasted with the scientific analysis which is now being done, and the conclusions drawn from each of these processes described and assessed. 386p b/w illus (Routledge 2009, Pb 2011)

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