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Coates, Victoria C. Gardner & Kenneth Lapatin & Jon L. Seydl

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012

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Year of publication
2012
ISBN
1606061151
Author
Coates, Victoria C. Gardner & Kenneth Lapatin & Jon L. Seydl
Publishers
J. Paul Getty Museum
Keyword
Art And Architecture Pompeii & Herculaneum Archeology &, Archaeology
Cover description
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 1606061151

Description

Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past. ; 11.2 X 9.8 X 1.0 inches; 256 pages; Oversized