medicinal destroyed versuvius appendices

books:

A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants

1 review
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

University of Texas Press, 1999

Informative, beautiful book with lovely photos/illustrations
My boss, who teaches graduate studies at UMD where Professor Jashemski also taught for many years recommended her works to me because he knew I had a keen interest in herbal medicine as well as archeology. A POMPEIAN HERBAL was published in 1999, a few short years after THE GARDENS OF POMPEII, HERCULANEUM, AND THE VILLAS DESTROYED BY VESUVIUS, which Jashemski co-edited with Frederick Meyer -- and ...

The Natural History of Pompeii

3 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 2002

For the scholar or serious student
Partly art history, partly botany and zoology, and partly forensics, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF POMPEII is a beautiful comprehensive work including the writings of archeologists and others who have examined the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum with the goal of establishing the nature of daily life as lived by the inhabitants of the two doomed settlements. This collection of scholarly papers was ...

The Gardens of Pompeii: Herculaneum and the Villas Destroyed by Versuvius: Vol. 2, Appendices

1 review
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 1993

Feels like your there
This book gives a vivid image of the Roman gardens. It explores the much unknown archeology of agriculture. The beautiful photographs illustrate the precision and wonder of Roman gardening, or the remains of it. I highly recomend this book to anyone interested in Pompeii or just the average run of the mill gardener.