Oh Happy Place!: Pompeii In 1000 Graffiti
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Before Pompeii was frozen in ash and memory, its walls were alive with the voices of ordinary Romans — merchants, lovers, gladiators, and poets — each scratching their thoughts, boasts, and desires into stone for all eternity. Oh Happy Place! Pompeii in 1000 Graffiti is a remarkable anthology that presents over a thousand authentic ancient inscriptions recovered from the walls of Pompeii, selected, translated, and meticulously annotated by classical scholar Vincent Hunink. This revised and enlarged edition offers an intimate and often startlingly modern window into the daily life, humour, politics, and passion of a Roman city at its height, bringing the voices of the long-dead back to vivid, irreverent life. Hunink's translation work is both scholarly and supremely accessible, capturing the raw wit and emotional directness of Roman street-writing with remarkable fidelity. The collection illuminates the breadth of human experience — from crude insults and election slogans to tender declarations of love — arguing powerfully that the ancients were, in their most unguarded moments, not so different from us. A work that sits at the crossroads of archaeology, linguistics, and social history, it challenges readers to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the ancient world. Who were the real people of Pompeii? The answer, it turns out, is written on the walls.
Author: Vincent Hunink
Format: Paperback
Published: 2011, Apeiron
Genre: Ancient history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before Pompeii was frozen in ash and memory, its walls were alive with the voices of ordinary Romans — merchants, lovers, gladiators, and poets — each scratching their thoughts, boasts, and desires into stone for all eternity. Oh Happy Place! Pompeii in 1000 Graffiti is a remarkable anthology that presents over a thousand authentic ancient inscriptions recovered from the walls of Pompeii, selected, translated, and meticulously annotated by classical scholar Vincent Hunink. This revised and enlarged edition offers an intimate and often startlingly modern window into the daily life, humour, politics, and passion of a Roman city at its height, bringing the voices of the long-dead back to vivid, irreverent life. Hunink's translation work is both scholarly and supremely accessible, capturing the raw wit and emotional directness of Roman street-writing with remarkable fidelity. The collection illuminates the breadth of human experience — from crude insults and election slogans to tender declarations of love — arguing powerfully that the ancients were, in their most unguarded moments, not so different from us. A work that sits at the crossroads of archaeology, linguistics, and social history, it challenges readers to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the ancient world. Who were the real people of Pompeii? The answer, it turns out, is written on the walls.