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	POMPEII
		One of the favourite myths of Pompeii's destruction is the story of the sentry, whose remains were supposedly found in a guardbox outside one of the town gates, where he had died on duty without deserting his post; or "Faithful unto Death", as Edward Poynter's painting of this noble scene is dubbed.
		The novel has a subtle underlying structure moving from water to fire - it is the discovery of sulphur in the aqueducts that first hints at the conflagration to come - and the story proceeds in short sections named after Roman days and hours, each starting with a teasing epigraph from a volume on volcanology.
		Pompeii, it should be said, steers clear of sledgehammer ironies and glib analogies in its portrait of the profit-mad "boom town".
	www.arlindo-correia.com /040504.html (10792 words)

	Pompeii (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pompeii is a novel by author and journalist Robert Harris published by Random House in 2003.
		It is a blend of fictional characters with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 that overwhelmed Pompeii and its surrounding towns.
		Pompeii is especially notable for the author's references to various aspects of vulcanology and use of the Roman calendar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pompeii_(novel) (374 words)

	Books : Pompeii: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies.
		But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.
		But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work -- both natural and man-made -- threatening to destroy him.
	www.cosyreading.info /0345475674/Pompeii_A_Novel.shtml (1242 words)

	Book Review - Pompeii by Robert Harris
		Lurking throughout the novel is the mountain itself, unknown to even be a volcano, ready to unleash an unimaginable horror on the unsuspecting populace that lived in its shadow.
		The hero in Pompeii is a young engineer named Marcus Attilius Primus, newly assigned as the aquarius of the Aqua Augusta, the 60-mile aqueduct that brings water from the mountains to all the cities in the Bay of Naples.
		Pompeii succeeds as a piece of historical fiction, as a disaster novel, and as a story of good versus evil, man versus nature, and as an examination of human nature.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /pompeii/review (1637 words)

	Pompeii - Robert Harris
		Pompeii is a novel which, one would imagine, comes with a huge handicap: every reader knows what's going to happen.
		Pompeii begins two days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Harris practically counts down the hours, so it's always clear how close disaster is), and the troubles with the aqueduct are the first portents of what is to come -- except that no one recognises them as such.
		Pompeii, in particular, is a nest of corruption, led by Ampliatus, and Attilius can only trust one or two of those employed to help him.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/harrisr/pompeii.htm (1567 words)

	Pompeii Worm
		Pompeii worms were initially discovered by French researchers in the early 1980's and are described as deep-sea polychaetes that reside in tubes near hydrothermal vents along the seafloor.
		The Pompeii worm resides in tubes near hydrothermal vents along the seafloor.
		Characterization of a Novel Spirochete Associated with the Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Annelid, Alvinella pompejana.
	serc.carleton.edu /microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.html (635 words)

	IDS: 'Pompeii' -- an overall explosive read (Arts, 12/13/2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He's written a novel that dramatizes the disaster that befell Pompeii in A.D. Harris, no stranger to historic fiction, has his most explosive outing with the drama and intrigue that surrounds the mountain.
		His novel "Pompeii" takes place solely in the few days preceding and during the eruption, which gives the novel an unusual, frenetic pace.
		Much of this novel's genius is that it manages to engross the reader, even though the outcome is known.
	www.idsnews.com /news/print.php?id=26799 (555 words)

	Greek & Roman Antiquities - Articles - Ancient History - Pompeii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pompeii is not to be confused with the Roman general Pompey.
		Most of the materials analyzed experienced temperatures between 240°C and 340°C. A few areas showed lower temperatures of only 180°C. It is theorized that turbulence may have mixed cool air into the ash cloud.
		Pompeii's well-preserved frescoes offer an unparalleled insight into the culture of an ancient city.
	www.greekandromancoins.com /pompeii-a-27.html (1806 words)

	The Best Reviews: Rebecca East, A. D. 62: Pompeii, a novel Review
		Rebecca East combines her training in archaeology and her talent for telling a story and brings the reader into a Roman household near Pompeii in A.D. The heroine, Miranda, is transported back in time by a group of Harvard researchers who have developed the means to do so.
		Three other slaves play significant roles in the novel: Alexander, the household steward, Iris, a beautiful 27 year old that Holconia sent to her husband after Tullia was born, and Cnaeus, the cook.
		Rebecca East is the pen name of an established professor and archaeologist who is conversant with the excavations at Pompeii and has, herself, worked on a "dig." She has a website www.rebecca-east.com where the reader can see some ancient art that formed a background for her novel.
	thebestreviews.com /review12973 (581 words)

	Borders - Feature - Pompeii
		The ability to disguise the outcome is held to be a vital part of the thriller-writer's art.
		Pompeii is a "known-ending story"—how successful do you think the author has been in building tension despite this?
		Attilius is an Aquarius; the structure of the novel moves from water to fire—discuss the theme of water within the novel.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=pompeii_rg (339 words)

	Amazon.com: Pompeii: A Novel: Books: Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
		Meanwhile, tremors are felt in Pompeii, and the populace fears that the god Vulcan is angry and may send another earthquake, such as occurred 17 years earlier.
		As he tracks the aqueduct from its terminus in Misenum to Pompeii and then onward to the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius, he observes unusual natural phenomena, discovers the upheaval that disrupted the water flow, and realizes that an inevitable cataclysmic event is about to occur.
	www.amazon.com /Pompeii-Novel-Robert-Harris/dp/0345475674 (1998 words)

	Love Among the Ruins
		It's all work and no play for Attilius until his stoic, spartan lifestyle of "the camp-bed and the cloak" is suddenly disrupted when he falls for a voluptuous beauty named Corelia, soon to be married off by her father, the town's formidable mob-boss millionaire Ampliatus.
		Pompeii's obligatory Roman banquet scene pays homage to this, with the nauseating addition of man-eating eels fed on the flesh of one of Ampliatus' own slaves.
		Pompeii is prefaced with two quotes from Pliny the Elder and the novelist Tom Wolfe describing the greatness of the Roman superpower, and its apparent latter-day successor, twenty first-century America.
	www.archaeology.org /online/reviews/pompeii (906 words)

	Pompeii
		Only readers dulled by heavy medication could possibly credit the ridiculous romance that Harris has tossed into his plot, and furthermore, we all know that Vesuvius is going to blow its lid.
		Pompeii, bless its heated heart, takes place during four sweltering days in late August 79 A.D..
		Once in Pompeii Attilius must maneuver through the dangers posed by his crew, various corrupt politicians, and a particularly scabrous land developer, whose daughter Corelia provides the above-mentioned romantic interest.
	www.springharborpress.com /pompeii.htm (943 words)

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		The novel isn't known very well today, but the Cecil B. DeMille version from 1935 is the best known, despite the fact that it has little to do with the novel.
		Pompeii's busiest restaurant was buried with the rest of the prosperous city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. The eruption killed thousands of people, but a 20-foot-deep cocoon of volcanic ash kept the city almost intact, providing precious information on domestic life in the ancient world.
		A female slave's bracelet found in the ruins of a cheap hotel, the skeleton of a pregnant woman who died surrounded by her family, a child's body flawlessly preserved in the ash; all become the basis for imagined stories about what might have transpired on that individual's last day.
	www.lycos.com /info/pompeii--cities.html?page=2 (684 words)

	Science Show - 3 April 2004 - Bill Hammack on Pompeii
		The Engineer Guy, Bill Hammock recommends Robert Harris' book, 'Pompeii', which is both a historical novel and a technological thriller set in 79 A.D., the year that Mt Vesuvius erupted, burying the city.
		Now this Roman hero finds the sound of water rushing from the mountain to Pompeii to be "the music of civilization." The mystery begins when his beloved water stops flowing: public fountains mysteriously stop, and springs no longer spout, and crisis hits the cities without water.
		And, lastly, after you read the novel Pompeii, you'll never again look at the water from your own faucet in quite the same way.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/scienceshow/stories/2004/1075986.htm (494 words)

	New Statesman - Toga wars. Who would have thought that a novel about a Roman plumber could be a pleasure to read? What ...
		Harris's fourth novel, Pompeii, is a sort of thriller about a Roman water engineer named Marcus Attilius who sets about restoring water to the city unaware that the real reason the aqueduct has ceased to flow is because of the effect of the incipient eruption.
		For this is a gripping novel that carries the reader smoothly along as in a litter borne by several muscular Nubian slaves.
		Almost in spite of his subject matter (in truth, who would have thought that a novel about a Roman plumber could be such a pleasure to read?) Harris proves, if proof were needed, that he is a writer who, unfashionably, never loses sight of his obligation towards the reader's welfare and enjoyment.
	www.newstatesman.com /200309150043 (937 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Historical novels
		This triumph of German ingenuity briefly embodies its inventors' vision of global unification, but it flies the swastika and is destined to become a fascist propaganda weapon, particularly (and paradoxically) when it bursts into flames during its 1937 landing in New Jersey.
		His meditative thriller revolves around the search by Lund, a survivor, for the cause of the disaster, but the novel inhabits a world created with such intelligence and imagination that it encloses your mind as you read, sealing you into prewar, then postwar Germany and into the lives of its moody characters.
		The hero of Robert Harris's new novel, "Pompeii," is also a practical man, but there, sadly, the comparison with "The Phoenix" ends.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/12/21/historical_novels?mode=PF (792 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Feature 01 06 04
		The set pieces are delicious: sun-drenched resorts filled with self-absorbed snobs, predilections for hair removal and unusual delicacies (sows' udders, anyone?), even the use of urine as the laundry detergent of the time.
		Salve lucrum ("Hail profit") is Pompeii's version of "greed is good." Ampliatus and Attilius offer the worst and best of their society, while Pliny the Elder brings relentless curiosity and a fading generation's perspective.
		If Harris loses his footing in Pompeii, it is when he attempts to link the randomness of natural disaster with the perilous, lackadaisical attitude of a self-satisfied empire.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-01-06/feat6.html (782 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pompeii: Books: Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pompeii marks the partial return to form of Robert Harris, who burst onto the scene a few years ago with the magnificent "Fatherland".
		The main character of this riveting novel is Marcus Attilus Primus whose job is trying to convince Pliny the Elder, a Roman admiral, to give him a ship to sail to Pompeii and find the source of an aqueduct problem.
		The citizens of Pompeii are all pieces of work themselves and their attempted undoing of the main character reads like a modern soap opera (this is a good thing, meaning that there's actually a plot and some connections--go figure).
	www.amazon.ca /Pompeii-Robert-Harris/dp/0091779251 (2335 words)

	Tour of Italy - Pompeii, the forgotten city
		So, if you are planning a trip to Pompeii yourself, be advised that you could easily spend a full day exploring the city.
		Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC.
		The Etruscans soon dominated the region and Pompeii was no exception.
	touritaly.org /pompeii/pompeii-main.htm (540 words)

	Pompei Virtual Tour
		Prior to the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii was a thriving city.
		A better understanding of life in Pompeii, a city with both Roman and Greek influence, can help us to better understand many of the writings of the New Testament.
		We are temporarily making available the home video footage I shot in 1985 while giving my sister-in-law and her family a walking tour through the ruins of Pompei.
	www.thecolefamily.com /italy/pompeii (577 words)

	Recommended Books about Pompeii
		A well-researched, very readable novel about Pompeii life leading up to (and including) the eruption.
		Written by the superintendent of the ruins (with many others), this is an excellent guidebook to take on a trip to the ruins.
		The first section discuss the care of the body, while the second section discusses adornments and explains how such items were made and distributed in the Roman world.
	www.mummytombs.com /market/books/pompeii.htm (1015 words)

	In Italy Online - Our Heritage - Campania / Naples / The Amalfi Coast / Capri at the bookstore
		But as Sontag warms to her subject, the novel becomes rich, expansive, and highly entertaining, right down to the slambang final chapters whose rapidly shifting voices suddenly provide new perspective.
		But these are only two strands in a vividly detailed tapestry that also includes an overview of Pompeii's history, a chronicle of its daily life, and a comprehensive tour of the spectacular city itself, from its awe-inspiring temples to its taverns, gladiator barracks, bakeries, baths, and shops.
		White Star's partners for Pompeii: Art and Treasures of the Buried City are the official institutions charged with preservation and the continuing exploration of the site: the Archaeological Superintendencies of Pompeii and Naples, and the Università Federico II of Naples.
	www.initaly.com /~initaly/itathome/books/campan.htm (3018 words)

	Powell's Books - Tenth Anniversary Essays: Eric Jager
		And it was hard to believe that the shattered cone on which we stood had spewed out enough debris to bury Pompeii under a thick layer of rock and ash where it lay almost forgotten for more than fifteen centuries.
		As the novel opens, Pompeii is still recovering from a devastating earthquake that toppled buildings and buckled streets seventeen years earlier, and now, two days before the terrible explosion that (only the reader knows) is gathering deep in the earth below the city's unsuspecting inhabitants, strange signs are seen.
		And whether you see the lost city through the misty air from the edge of the volcano, or in your mind's eye from your armchair, you will feel as though you, too, were there.
	www.powells.com /taae/jager.html (613 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: More Pompeii
		The lucky viewers of BBC1 TV were treated to more angry Vesuvius last night with the showing of "Pompeii: The Last Day", a mix of drama and documentary, which recreated the final 24 hours of the city.
		State-of-the-art effects were employed to display the dramatic eruption of the volcano, which buried both Pompeii and Herculaneum in a thick layer of ash.
		With sections such as "Pompeii: Its Discovery and Preservation" and "Pompeii: Portents of Disaster", this is a demonstration of what can be done on the web when resources are combined with creativity and knowledge.
	www.eamonn.com /2003/10/more_pompeii.htm (265 words)

	Explicit ‘history’ book shelved \| The Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Last week, a parent contacted the administration of Masuk to say that she had some concerns regarding Pompeii, a novel about the destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
		The novel Pompeii was on the New York Times Best Seller list and received many rave reviews from other literary sources.
		The Washington Post calls Pompeii, “an intelligent, engaging, historical novel,” and the Miami Herald says that it is “a meticulously researched, beautifully written historical thriller.” The first six pages of the paperback are filled with positive reviews.
	www.thechronicle.us /archive_news.php?id=176 (596 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Days of Pompeii: Books: Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If all you know about Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is the notorious opening sentence of another of his novels, "It was a dark and stormy night...," and that this is supposed to imply that he wrote overblown purple prose -- I urge you to try The Last Days of Pompeii (first published in 1834).
		Briefly, the story concerns four people in Pompeii in the period leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city in ash in AD 79.
		In the background is a turmoil of religious and social problems, with a deadly volcano smoldering behind it all.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Pompeii-Edward-George-Bulwer-Lytton/dp/158715739X (2210 words)

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