Pompeii: Its Life and Art - Couverture rigide

Mau, A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0892413468 ISBN 13 : 9780892413461

Editeur : Aristide D. Caratzas, 1979

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For twenty-five years Professor Mau has devoted himself to the study of Pompeii, spending his summers among the ruins and his winters in Rome, working up the new material. He holds a unique place among the scholars who have given attention toP ompeian antiquities, and his contributions to the literature of the subject have been numerous in both German and I talian. The present volume, however, is not a translation of one previously issued, but a new work first published in English, the liberality of the publishers having made it possible to secure assistance for the preparation of certain restorations and other drawings which Professor Mau desired to have made as illustrating his interpretation of the ruins. In one respect there is an essential difference between the remains of Pompeii and those of the large and famous cities of antiquity, as Rome or A thens, which have associated with them the familiar names of historical characters. Mars Hill is clothed with human interest, if for no other reason, because of its relation to the work of the Apostle Paul; while the Roman Forum and the Palatine, barren as they S( nto-day, teem with life as there rise before the minds eye the scenes presented in the pages of classical writers. But the Campanian city played an unimportant part in contemporary history; the name of not a single great Pompeian is recorded. The ruins, deprived of the interest arising from historical associations, must be interpreted with little help from literary sources, and repeopled with aggregate rather than individual life.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aristide D. Caratzas
• Date d'édition: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0892413468
• ISBN 13: 9780892413461
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 582