Note sull'episodio
In this episode of Exploring Antiquity, I speak with Steven L. Tuck, Professor of History at Miami University, about his work studying survivors of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, such as where they settled and how they integrated into their new communities.
Further Reading:
M. Beard, The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Cambridge, MA, 2008).
J. Berry, The Complete Pompeii (London, 2007).
S. L. Tuck, Escape from Pompeii The Great Eruption of Vesuvius and Its Survivors (Oxford, 2026).
S.L. Tuck, ‘The Catastrophic ad 79 Eruption of Vesuvius: Survivors and Post-eruption Intervention at the Local and Imperial Levels in Four Communities,’ in R. Raja and A. Wilson (eds.), Catastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World (Turnhout, 2026), pp. 83–101.
P. Wilkinson, Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide (London, 2019).