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In Pompeii. The Life of a Roman Town, Mary Beard takes us on a tour of the most popular classical site in the world, showing how much of what we thought we knew is a myth. A fabula, as the Romans might have said. Pompeii explodes a number of preconceptions, making up an extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery.‘Ancient history as it should be written’ Giles FodenMary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She has a chair of Classics at Cambridge where she is a Fellow of Newnham College, and she is classics editor of the TLS.Charlotte Higgins is a Chief Arts Writer for The Guardian.
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