Pompeii/Bibliography

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Ancient sources

Project Gutenburg hosts a free early 20th-century translation of Pliny the Younger's letters, including his account of Vesuvius' eruption [1]. A more recent translation can be found in Cooley & Cooley, Pompeii: a sourcebook, from page 32 onward [2].

Modern study of Pomepii

• Beard, Mary (2008) Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town. London: Profile Books. ISBN 9781846684715. Contains a plan on page vi.
• Cooley, Alison & Cooley, M. G. L (2004). Pompeii: a sourcebook. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415262118. Contains extracts from primary sources and a plan.
• de Carolis, Ernesto & Patricelli, Giovanni (2003). Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Roberto Marcucci. p. 74. ISBN 88-8265-199-1.
• Sigurdsson, Haraldur; Cashdollar, Stanford; and Sparkes, Stephen R. J. (1982). "The Eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79: Reconstruction from Historical and Volcanological Evidence", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 39–51. A scientific article on the eruption.
• Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1994) Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691029092
• Zanker, Paul (1998). Pompeii: Public and Private Life. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674689671.