"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin!"
This book features a selection of the most interesting, illuminating, offensive, heartfelt, scatalogical, and surprising graffiti that has been discovered at Pompeii. Alongside this, it contains several other inscriptions, and exciting ancient descriptions of the eruption by Pliny the Younger, Cassius Dio, and Martial.
Language
English
Pages
23
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
James Allan Press
Release
January 06, 2014
Grafitti and other Sources on Pompeii and Herculaneum
"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin!"
This book features a selection of the most interesting, illuminating, offensive, heartfelt, scatalogical, and surprising graffiti that has been discovered at Pompeii. Alongside this, it contains several other inscriptions, and exciting ancient descriptions of the eruption by Pliny the Younger, Cassius Dio, and Martial.