Guide with Reconstructions - Pompeii - Herculaneum and the Villa Jovis, Capri - Past & Present (edition 1964)

by Alfonso De Franciscis (Author)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
167	1	163,168	(3.56)	None
To the Romans, Vesuvius was a fertile mountain, thickly covered with vineyards and woods. When the volcano suddenly erupted on the morning of 24 August 79 A.D., the populations of the little cities that dotted the surrounding countryside were entirely unprepared for the disaster.

▾Book information

Member:	AdocentynLibrary
Title:	Guide with Reconstructions - Pompeii - Herculaneum and the Villa Jovis, Capri - Past & Present
Authors:	Alfonso De Franciscis (Author)
Info:	Vision Publications (1964), Edition: First Edition
Collections:	Your library, Don
Rating:
Tags:	Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman World Sites, Graeco-Roman Sites, Graeco-Roman World, Capri, Reconstructions

Work Information

Pompeii Herculaneum: Past and Present: Guide with Reconstructions by Alfonso De Franciscis

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

johncolucci, ItalCulturalCenter, RhodestoRome, npatrono1, Lisalawgirl, Thammu, banzaibeagle, Heatherlea77, NafizaBMC, HijabiHomegirl

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

A great little book which has transparent sheets that reconstruct photos of ruins into what they would have looked like. (

)

notmyrealname | Apr 12, 2006 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Pompeii Herculaneum: Past and Present: Guide with Reconstructions

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

To the Romans, Vesuvius was a fertile mountain, thickly covered with vineyards and woods. When the volcano suddenly erupted on the morning of 24 August 79 A.D., the populations of the little cities that dotted the surrounding countryside were entirely unprepared for the disaster.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary