The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
Volume II: The Decorations
Series: Insula of the Menander at Pompeii;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 August 2005
- ISBN 9780199266951
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages592 pages
- Size 320x241x36 mm
- Weight 2422 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp. colour plates, numerous halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This is the second in a series of five volumes examining the Insula (city block) of the Menander at Pompeii. Featuring not only the grand House of the Menander, which gives the block its name, but also the lesser houses, it is the first full publication of the rich stock of wall paintings and mosaics in this neighbourhood of Pompeii.
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This volume is the second in a series of five on the Insula (city block) of the Menander at Pompeii. The first (on the structures) and the fourth (on the silver treasure) have already been published; the third, on the objects, and the fifth, on the graffiti, are in preparation. The Insula of the Menander, approximately 3500 sq. m. in area, derives its name from the House of the Menander, one of the best-known dwellings of the ancient city. This was evidently the property of one of Pompeii's leading citizens. Renowned for its architectural grandeur and for the hoard of 110 pieces of silver plate found in a cellar, it also yielded room upon room of splendid wall-paintings and mosaic pavements, ranging in date from the first century BC to the eve of the eruption of AD 79. In addition to this dominant house, the block contains several smaller houses - notably the House of the Lovers and the House of the Craftsman - most of which contain further paintings and pavements of interest. The present volume publishes these decorations in full for the first time. Its importance lies in the fact that it covers the whole block, rather than concentrating upon isolated houses (as most previous volumes have done). This enables the reader not only to look at questions of chronology and iconography room by room and house by house, but also to observe broad patterns of taste and social differentiation within a particular neighbourhood of Pompeii.
...invaluabe both for its analysis of the Insula and for the precise and precious documentation it provides... Roger and Leslie Ling are to be celebrated for their dedication to this long and complicated project and, above all, for the excellence of their scholarship.
Table of Contents:
I 10, 4: Casa del Menandro
I 10, 11: Casa degli Amanti
I 10, 7: Casa del Fabbro
I 10, 8
Minor Houses
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