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There seems to be new books about Pompeii every month. the one on the doctors seems interesting though, it isn't really something you hear much about. I remember Pertinax used to cover the ancient's attitudes to medicine and health in his blogs and posts a few years back.

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Looking good. I think they need to stop with all the Roman Britain stuff though. I believe it focused on too much with books. Sure, it was fascinating and all that, but there are other interesting areas with less books published about them.

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Looking good. I think they need to stop with all the Roman Britain stuff though. I believe it focused on too much with books. Sure, it was fascinating and all that, but there are other interesting areas with less books published about them.

 

The problem is probably with the 'English' speaking market that there is a voracious desire to read something they can relate to, which normally means jumping onto the back of already available material which doesn't need translated QED yet more books get published about Roman Britain. To my regret I know that there is a lot of really good academic material published notably in French (e.g. the Thugga site report) as well as in German relating to North Africa and other parts of the Roman world which have been extensively researched by non-English speakers and with a few exceptions are poorly represented in English translations.

 

I'm sure there are other works in Italian,and Spanish as well as other European (and some non-European) languages which would find a ready market if only someone translated them and could make them available at a reasonable price :(

 

[Edit BTW from my perspective I think both the 'houses and society' and the 'glass-blowers' books may be worth a look if they are available when I'm next in an academic bookshop.]

Edited by Melvadius

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Any book giveaways from this (or any previous) list coming our way any time soon? :whistling:

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My all time favorite (And in my opinion always needs to be on the top of the list) is The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough.

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