Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 937.7
EAN num: 9780500390276
ISBN number: 0500390274
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 184
Printing Date: 1990-07
Publishing house: Thames & Hudson
Sale Popularity Level: 543713
Studio: Thames & Hudson
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Although the editior is Colin Renfrew for whom I have the greatest admiration, the book is overall a bit of a difficult read. Unless you have an intense interest in knowing the details of the Italian world through time to the extent of desiring a more thorough knowledge of more out of the way places, I'd say this was not for you. A similar book on Pompeii would probably be more entertaining to the average reader because one already has some sense of "kinship" with the site of so famous a natural tragedy. Paestum, ancient Greek Poseidonia, is somewhat less known. Pedley's Paestum is a well ilustrated book, however, and does an adequate job of describing the development of the site through time, admittedly an admirable piece of archaeological workmanship and published, as so many sites are not. Still it will probably appeal mostly to the Greco-Roman historian or to the college student studying classical archaeology.
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