Pompeii and Herculaneum: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources

Pompeii and Herculaneum: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources explores the remains of two of the most intact cities of the Ancient Roman world. Preserved as living cities, the two sites reveal evidence of everyday life, including leisure activities, religion and housing, politics, and social organisation at the moment, in AD 79, when both centres were subsumed in volcanic debris.

Students engage with secondary literature before and as they investigate and interpretate the sources.

Students enact the historical skills of analysis and use sources, interpretation, investigation and research, and explain and communicate their historical findings.

Students use the historical concepts of continuity and change, perspectives, significance, causation, and contestability to interpret the past.

Key Features 

• Accomplished author team 
• Alignment with the NSW Ancient History Syllabus 
• Extracts from key historical sources and interpretations 
• Activities tailored to the historical skills and concepts, including the analysis and use of sources, historical interpretation, historical investigation and research, and explanation and communication 
• Content consolidation activities scaffold students on the journey from remembering to evaluation and creation 
• Recent photographs of key sites and excavations

Contents

• Glossary
• Map of Pompeii
• Map of Herculaneum
• Chapter 1: Introducing Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Chapter 2: Survey
• Chapter 3: The economy
• Chapter 4: The social structure
• Chapter 5: Government and politics
• Chapter 6: Everyday life
• Chapter 7: Religion
• Chapter 8: The influence of Greek and Egyptian cultures
• Chapter 9: Changing interpretations
• Chapter 10: Conservation and reconstruction
• Chapter 11: Ethical issues
• Chapter 12: Value and impact of tourism