This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to assessing trends and practices. Here, a holistic approach to the funerary monuments allows for the in| Routledge & CRC Press
Yesterday came a rather exciting announcement that a Samnite grave has been discovered in Pompeii. The details revealed thus far include that a skeleton, belonging to a woman approximately forty to…| Pompeian Connections
In addition to the pleas of the lovelorn one would expect to find addressed to the goddess of love, Venus appears in a number of contexts in Pompeii, both epigraphic and iconographic. Many of the i…| Pompeian Connections
Venus enim / plagiaria / est; quia exsanguni / meum petit, / in vies tumultu(m) / pariet: optet / sibi, ut bene / naviget, / quod et / Ario sua r(ogat). ‘Venus is a weaver of webs; from the moment …| Pompeian Connections
A few quick comments on the rather remarkable new find from Pompeii, the tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio, as reported today in The Guardian. The press attention has inevitably focussed mostly on t…| Georgy Kantor's blog