PUBLIC LECTURE: Public Lecture - The New Urban History of Pompeii

2017 and 2018 saw the publication of a clutch of academic books that have provided completely new interpretations of the city based on long-term research projects. This talk will outline the implications of these new works for our understanding of the city in 2019 focussing on the development of the city’s fortifications, its streets, and what may be described as the retail revolution that created the shops found right across the city. Other matters will be touched on to show how our knowledge of the site, so familiar to us, is being reshaped by a new generation of researchers.