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The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Rowland’s own impressions of Pompeii.
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- Published on: 2015-11-16
- Original language: English
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From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town, by Ingrid D. Rowland From Booklist Buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in CE 79, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is one of the most studied historic sites by archaeologists. Architectural scholar Rowland first became enthusiastic about Pompeii when she visited it in 1961 as a child with her parents and younger brother. The city was subjected to human as well as volcanic destruction in efforts to protect it for archaeologists and display it for tourists, becoming “a strange mix of overly packaged Disneyland and idyllic wilderness walk.” Rowland brings her “personal archaeology” to the task of exploring Pompeii as a scholar and offers a selection of visitors—artists, writers, scientists—whose lives were also changed by visiting Pompeii. Among those pondering the everyday artifacts and erotica she includes the Jesuit Athanasius, who challenged the belief that Mount Vesuvius’ eruptions were God’s wrath on human wickedness; Raphael, who found inspiration in Pompeii’s ancient drawings; and Freud, who discovered therapeutic benefit in his visit. Rowland also recounts visits by Mozart, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Japanese crown prince Hirohito in this engaging look at the allure of an ancient city. --Vanessa Bush
Review Ingrid D. Rowland's richly learned From Pompeii" is a wonderfully well-written, funny, fascinating, and oddly poignant tour through the many afterlives of the ancient city. This is a brilliant book about the pleasures and perils of archaeology, historical preservation, and cultural tourism, stumbling over one another in a quixotic search for the traces of the dead.--Stephen Greenblatt, author of "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern"Original, highly illuminating, and fun--brimming with ideas and observations--and many surprises for those familiar with Pompeii as well as for new visitors to the Bay of Naples. This is classic Rowland!--Kenneth Lapatin, Paul J. Getty MuseumOriginal, highly illuminating, and fun brimming with ideas and observations and many surprises for those familiar with Pompeii as well as for new visitors to the Bay of Naples. This is classic Rowland!--Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum"[An] engaging look at the allure of an ancient city.--Vanessa Bush"Booklist" (03/01/2014)Visitors to Pompeii have long marveled at the town s perfectly preserved scenes of Roman life, but interpretations of those scenes have varied widely over the years. Rowland writes about a selection of those visitors, some famous--like Renoir, whose painting style was influenced by the town s erotic frescoes--others less well known-- like a priest named Father Kircher, who risked the wrath of the Inquisition when he suggested that the eruption of Vesuvius was in response to gigantic cycles within the earth itself rather than God s pique at individual sinners. Each story speaks to the way in which Pompeii reveals the hopes and the desires of the individuals and of societies.--Andrea DenHoed"New Yorker" (03/04/2014)"This is a book difficult, even impossible, to summarize Rowland s enthusiasm for her subject and her knowledge of history are such that many will find interest and pleasure in dipping into it, pulling out a plum here or there.--Allan Massie"Literary Review" (03/01/2014)"[Rowland s] book is a personal, indeed highly selective, account of what many researchers, cultivated visitors, archaeologists and even urban reformers have made of the site and the modern town of Pompeii: It reads, all told, like a collection of entertaining essays. She handles her theme with an ease and authority that should please others who are fond of Campania, the Neapolitan region, an area of great beauty and equally great social and environmental problem Rowland covers a wide range of topics, including the creation of the modern town of Pompeii, the musings of tourists like Dickens and Mark Twain, and diverse aspects of Neapolitan folklore.--Dan Hofstadter "Wall Street Journal ""Elegant, witty and beautifully produced It is less a guide than an overtly aesthetic appreciation of the site and its environs, poetic in its sense of connections over time It is more the gap between individual drama and universal catastrophe, both inside Pompeii and looking on from outside, that Rowland s account so powerfully conjures up.--Emily Gowers"The Guardian" (04/12/2014)"From Pompeii" is immensely lively and thought-provoking The book is crammed with telling details and entertaining snippets.--Chloe Chard"Sunday Telegraph" (03/30/2014)"Its historical breadth and richness notwithstanding, From Pompeii" is a surprisingly intimate book. Rowland begins with her first encounter with Herculaneum as an 8-year-old with a Brownie Starmite camera From Pompeii" is thus a personal, even idiosyncratic, introduction to Pompeii in the mode of, say, the novelist E. M. Forster s Alexandria: A History and a Guide" If you have any interest in Pompeii, or in entertaining scholarship, or in Italian culture, you ll want to set aside a few evenings for this deeply engaging work of popular history.--Michael Dirda"Washington Post" (04/09/2014)"The book is an entertaining canter through two millennia of history, deeply learned without succumbing to stuffiness or superiority Rowland is a lively writer and her tale of Pompeii s rediscovery and excavation is engaging. She skillfully brings to light details of the world unearthed at Pompeii--the various styles of painting identified by art historians, the social purpose of the god Priapus--and splices these into her narrative of discovery. In the process she never loses sight of the relationship between this recovery of antiquity s physical remains and the 18th century s vibrant neo-classicism. The former clearly nourished the latter, but the story turns out to be more complicated than first thought.--Luke Slattery"Sydney Morning Herald" (04/05/2014)"[Told] in rich and fascinating detail When Rowland tells us that a visit to Pompeii can change a person s life, she is speaking from personal experience.--Tom Holland"The Spectator" (04/12/2014)"[A] lively book For Pompeii is not really frozen in time. The achievement of Rowland's book is precisely to show it at the heart of a turbulent, ever-changing region, where the landscape and people are forever caught up in transformation and drama--whether geological, political, technological or cultural. She beautifully evokes the connections between the local, the international, the spiritual and the seismic For Rowland, Pompeii is the fount from which innumerable rivulets of history flow, and her fluent and engaging writing follows them where it will This is a vivid and stimulating account of the history of a corner of the earth where there seems too much colorful humanity ever to be adequately captured in a single book. Rowland s brimming pages show there are plenty more treasures to be excavated from the fertile volcanic soil of its history.--Rebecca Langlands"Times Higher Education" (05/08/2014)"There s probably no one more qualified to have a go at this subject than Rowland She possesses unsurpassed knowledge of whatever she takes up, and this work is no exception It will delight any reader who likes the serious laced with the macabre and bizarre, the ancient with the modern We never tire of her deeply knowledgeable entertainment [A] genial, learned travelogue It s one of the pleasures of Rowland s tour that we get to meet with Pompeii s visitors over the centuries, as varied a cast of characters as might be dreamed up While this is in no sense a guidebook to Pompeii and Herculaneum, anyone planning to visit Italy s southwest coast will gain from taking Rowland s fast-paced historical tour beforehand [A] splendid book.--James M. Banner Jr."Weekly Standard" (05/26/2014)"The book is an enjoyable read that encompasses an exciting range of topics in political and social history Recommended for general readers who want to know more about a place that continues to haunt the imagination of nearly everyone who visits it.--Linda Frederiksen"Library Journal" (06/01/2014)"
About the Author Ingrid D. Rowland is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Of all things Pompeii By R. M. Peterson If one wanted a cicerone for a tour of Pompeii, one could hardly do better than Ingrid Rowland. She has written a handful of other books about matters of Italian history and culture, and as a Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame based in Rome she has led many student field trips to Pompeii. Indeed, it has been a focus of her interest since first visiting it as a girl in 1962.If you have read anything else by Rowland, you know that she is very learned. And that she shares that vast erudition with her reader. So it is with FROM POMPEII. There is a cornucopia of information and esoterica about Pompeii and its environs, including Naples. She, of course, begins with the explosion of Mount Vesuvius on August 24 of A.D. 79, and she takes us through the history of the place up to today, when damage to the excavated Roman town comes from a changing climate, slashed budgets, bureaucracy, corruption, and "excesses of attention and excesses of neglect". (Still, Mount Vesuvius, thought by many to be primed for another massive explosion with pyroclastic flows, remains an apocalyptic threat.)Among other things, Rowland recounts the experiences of noted visitors to Pompeii through history, including Father Athanasius Kircher ("the last man who knew everything"), a youthful Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Pierre-August Renoir, and Crown Prince Hirohito. It's not all high-brow: there is a chapter on Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman making the movie "Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy)" in 1953, at the same time as in Naples Vittorio di Sica was filming "The Gold of Naples" starring the nineteen-year-old Sophia Loren. Rowland also discusses how Pompeii, through history, has been the inspiration for various paintings, novels, and poems (including one by Emily Dickinson).And Ingrid Rowland being Ingrid Rowland, there is plenty of arcana, much of it fascinating although potentially overwhelming in its abundance. For example, castrati: Although castration, as deliberate mutilation of the body, was under official church doctrine a sin punishable by excommunication, the church was the chief employer of castrati as singers and Naples was the epicenter of their production (in the eighteenth century, Neapolitan barbers hung out signs saying "Boys castrated here"). Another example: the Fontanelle in the Valley of the Dead, a quarry carved into the bedrock of Naples that had for centuries been used as a mass grave (such as for victims of the plague), and eventually the source for a widespread cult among lower class Neapolitans who built shrines and otherwise lavished affection and attention on individual skulls plucked from the cemetery's stacks of skulls. A third example (to show just how far-ranging Rowland's scholarship can go): John Surratt, one of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the plot against Abraham Lincoln, escaped the United States to fight for Pope Pius IX in his campaign to keep Rome from being incorporated into a united Italian nation-state.For the most part Rowland's prose flows well enough, although there are occasional sentences sufficiently thorny and convoluted as to require a second reading. Often, a little too often for my liking, Rowland incorporates into her narrative passages from other writers. But my principal reservation is that, for me, the book's rampant erudition was simply too much for relaxed, wholly pleasurable reading -- which, of course, may be more a fault of mine than the book's.FROM POMPEII includes about forty duotone illustrations -- historical photos, works of art, and photographs of Pompeii and its wall paintings taken by Rowland. The very last of those photographs is of a juice vendor's stand at Pompeii, likely the same stand at which I bought lemonade that revived my wilting family on our one and only visit there on a sweltering August day in 2003. The book also contains a few minor typographical errors, more than I would expect from a publisher with the reputation of the Belknap Press.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Visiting Pompeii through the Centuries By Rob Hardy We think of Pompeii as frozen in the year 79 A.D., and maybe it was indeed inert until people started digging around the site in the eighteenth century. From then on, the place has inevitably changed, as people dug in it and restored it to their way of thinking, fantasized about it, took parts of it away, and made it fit for the thousands of visitors who came to wander its streets. It is this story that is told in _From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town_ (Belknap/Harvard) by Ingrid D. Rowland. The author is a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Rome, and her chapters are essays on aspects of the city. Some of them are personal, like her memories of being taken to the area when she was a child (there is a picture here of her as an eight-year-old in Herculaneum, with a Brownie camera dangling from her neck) or her experiences in taking commercial tours from Rome to the region where she has conducted more serious academic tours. While the chapters are chronological, Rowland is a digressive and often witty writer, who obviously enjoys relating facts in a more informal way (nonetheless, there are plenty of footnotes). “This book presents a selection of visitors whose lives were forever altered by their experience of Pompeii, as well as a few who reacted less drastically.” While there are plenty of references to the city, its history, and its archaeology, the story of its afterlife proves to be colorful, frustrating, and funny.Pompeii’s discovery came after Herculaneum was being dug up, and by 1765 tour guides had added Pompeii to their repertoires for people coming to see the region around Naples. Much of Rowland’s book has to do with visits to Pompeii by famous people. The fifteen-year-old Mozart went in 1770, and it is often said that Mozart’s visit to the site, especially the Temple of Isis, helped inspire parts of _The Magic Flute_. But Rowland admits, “How exactly are we to recognize the reflection of an archaeological site in a musical composition?” Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel _The Last Days of Pompeii_ has characters say things like, “Ho, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?” The 1867 novel, which seems to insert Victorian speech and views into the doomed city, was a bestseller, and it used to be (seriously) recommended for those who were making their first visit to view the ruins. Dickens visited in 1845, and wrote a description in _Pictures of Italy_ which movingly could describe the ruins as we see them even now. He was moved by imagining all those Pompeians wiped out by Vesuvius, but he was disturbed by the Neapolitan cult of the dead. Mark Twain visited in 1875, and in _Innocents Abroad_ wrote acerbically about the Neapolitan belief in the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro which helped draw money from onlookers (he’d chuckle to know that the blood is still performing this function). Like Dickens, he was more moved by the ruins of Pompeii itself, and he was inspired by the figure of the “Steadfast Soldier,” a guard whose skeleton was found in his guard-box, refusing to abandon his post just because a volcano was raging. Many other moralists at the time admired the Steadfast Soldier; there is, however, no evidence that the skeleton was any more than some unfortunate Pompeian, fleeing with all the others, who ducked under an arch, not into a guard-box, for shelter. Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited Italy in 1881 after struggling in Paris for twenty years, and was inspired by the classical paintings he saw and by the light. He admired the frescoes from Pompeii that he saw in the National Museum in Naples and on site. His paintings became brighter and more sculptural because of them. In 1994, Hillary Clinton refused to be satisfied with seeing just Herculaneum, and got into Pompeii, although her tour was abbreviated. Secret Service agents went before her room by room to make sure everything was safe, and their protectiveness extended to preventing her from entering a room in the beautiful House of the Vettii where there is a famous statue of the god Priapus with his enormous phallus. This was not going to be a photo op.In Rowland’s vivid telling, Pompeii proves to be a very lively place indeed. And still the ancient streets are alive with guides and tourists. Buying and selling and arguing go on nearby, just as they did two thousand years ago. The other constant is Mount Vesuvius, which is now overdue for an eruption, and it is quite possible that the whole place will be buried again, along with much of the the surrounding area along the Bay of Naples. The Neapolitans are skeptical about government, and there is every reason to believe that any evacuation plan, even with scientific warnings the ancient Pompeians never had, is going to leave thousands behind when the volcano blows. “There is simply no way to escape the discrepancy of scale between Vesuvius and human beings,” writes Rowland. “It is one of the reasons that Pompeii pulls so on our imagination.”
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. This is a Wonderful Book By David Reid I've read most of the author's other books and all of her review articles in the New York Review of Books and I've been enjoying her work for years. Having been to Pompeii several times I was eagerly awaiting this book and I was definitely not disappointed. It's beautifully written and not only exhibits her deep erudition but also her flare for making the ancient world come alive. Everyone who visits Pompeii several times comes away with a unique emotional reaction and perspective and I especially enjoyed the way she shared her own personal reaction to the site. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has a taste for learning about the ancient world in a unique and highly accessible way.
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