The Buried City
Unearthing the Real Pompeii
$45.72
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2025
Summary
The Buried City
The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.
In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site’s biggest dig in a generation. As director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Zuchtriegel presents a uniquel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226839608 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226839605 |
| Author: | Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Jamie Bulloch |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
“Zuchtriegel has demonstrated a keen interest in fostering a sense of ownership of the archaeological heritage of Pompeii in people who live in the surrounding areas, especially the youth from disadvantaged backgrounds… . With this emphasis on the principle that archaeology must benefit society, Zuchtriegel prompts academics to double the efforts in reshaping university curricula so that the next generation of Classical archaeologists can be trained in other technical skills that have become essential to the profession, whether to conduct fieldwork projects or perform museum roles (e.g., accounting, human resource management, communication, public engagement and fundraising). Most of all, it challenges us to reflect on the influence that our personal histories have on the way we approach and interpret the past, which in our scholarship is often presented as dry science, and ultimately reconnect with the true passions that motivate our daily work.”
– “Bryn Mawr Classical Review”“Zuchtriegel (director, Pompeii Archaeological Park) entwines personal history and philosophy with classics, the arts, and popular culture, addressing Pompeii in 79 CE… . Recommended.”
– “Choice”“The Buried City is no conventional history of Pompeii–though Zuchtriegel covers the basics for the uninitiated. Rather, it is a justification for the kind of work carried out at the site and an opportunity to pose modern questions against a classical context … In Bulloch’s excellent translation, the part-history, part-memoir is spirited and genial, evoking the everyday life of a city that has miraculously stood the test of time.”– “Financial Times (on the UK edition)”
“The Buried City is about more than just the city that died in AD 79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted and engulfed streets and temples and houses in ash punctuated by shock waves of intense heat; it’s also about the disciplines of archeology and reconstruction that are slowly, painstakingly unearthing the preserved remains. Zuchtriegel as a narrator is present on almost every page in the first person, which separates his book from the small library of titles dedicated to Pompeii… . Thanks to Zuchtriegel’s storytelling energy, the most famous dead city in the world feels alive and teeming with activity.”
–Steve Donoghue “Open Letters Review”“In The Buried City, the director of the archaeological park brings a more humane and soulful version of the site to life… . One of the most interesting components of Zuchtriegel’s writing is that it grants us a peek behind the curtain of the internal politics of running one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world… . Refreshingly, Zuchtriegel focuses on the everyday lives of both the archaeologists and staff working at the site today and those who died there in the eruption of 79 CE through accessible language. He brings readers into topics of contemporary academic debates, such as the size of the city’s population, and translates inscriptions and unearthed tablets.”
–Sarah E. Bond “Hyperallergic”
“The Buried City tells the story of Zuchtriegel’s memorable personal journey to taking charge at Pompeii, along the way revealing how he’s righting the wrongs of his predecessors and presiding over the new and remarkable discoveries at this greatest of archaeological sites.”–Guy de la Bédoyère, author of “Populus”
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Gabriel Zuchtriegel is director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Prior to being appointed to oversee Pompeii in 2021, he was director of the archaeological parks of Paestum and Velia, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. Zuchtriegel is the author of numerous articles and books, including Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece and The Making of the Doric Temple.
Jamie Bulloch has translated over fifty titles from German, including works by Arno Geiger, Robert Menasse, Birgit Vanderbeke, Daniela Krien, and Sebastian Fitzek. He has twice won the Schlegel-Tieck prize and is also the author of Karl Renner: Austria. Jamie lives in London with his wife and three daughters.
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