The other Pompeii

In one of the most visited, yet best-preserved, sites of antiquity in the world, we tend to tell a partial, minority story, systematically forgetting, for various reasons (study tradition, habit, difficulty recovering data, etc.), the stories of the majority. We traverse the city, passing from one important domus to another, from one public building to another, absentmindedly passing by and overlooking a myriad of indistinct, featureless spaces that nevertheless exist and complete the urban fabric. And the people who lived and worked there, equally forgotten, constituted the social fabric of 1st-century AD Pompeii: the majority of the population. Casting an unusual gaze on the ancient city, The Other Pompeii represents an act of remembrance towards this majority, an effort of identification and in some ways of imagination, conducted by digging into the indistinct mass that we generically define as the humble classes, the lower-middle classes, to bring out people and their stories, sifting through the housing units in search of those silent places that have come back to life [from the preface by Silvia Martina Bertesago, Gabriel Zuchtriegel].

• Publication date: 11/12/23
• Dimensions: 24x30 cm
• Pages: 280
• Packaging: paperback
• Language: Italian
• ISBN: 9788856909593