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PREFACE
near to us, — such are Caecilius Jucundus and the generous
priestess Eumachia; but the characters most commonly asso-
ciated with the city are those of fiction. Here, in a greater
degree than in most places, the work of reconstruction involves
the handling of countless bits of evidence, which, when viewed
by themselves, often seem too minute to be of importance; the
blending of these into a complete and faithful picture is a task
of infinite painstaking, the difficulty of which will best be appre-
ciated by one who has worked in this field.
It was at first proposed to place at the end of the book a
series of bibliographical notes on the different chapters, giving
references to the more important treatises and articles dealing
with the matters presented. But on fuller consideration it
seemed unnecessary thus to add to the bulk of the volume;
those who are interested in the study of a particular building
or aspect of Pompeian culture will naturally turn to the Pom-
peianarum antiquitatum historia, the reports in the Notizie degli
Scavi, the reports and articles by Professor Mau in the Roman
Mittheilungen of the German Archaeological Institute, the
Overbeck-Mau Pompeji, the Studies by Mau and by Nissen,
the commemorative volume issued in 1879 under the title
Pompei e la regions sotterrata dal Vesuvio, the catalogues of
the paintings by Helbig and Sogliano, together with Mau’s
Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji, H. von
Rohden’s Terracotten von Pompeji, and the older illustrated
works, as well as the beautiful volume, Pompeji vor der Zer-
stoerung, published in 1897 by Weichardt.
The titles of more than five hundred books and pamphlets
relating to Pompeii are given in Furchheim’s Bibliografia di
Pompei (second edition, Naples, 1891). To this list should be
added an elaborate work on the temple of Isis, Aedis Isidis
Pompeiana, which is soon to appear. The copperplates for
the engravings were prepared at the expense of the old Acca-
demia ercolanese, but only the first section of the work was
published; the plates, fortunately, have been preserved without
PREFACE
near to us, — such are Caecilius Jucundus and the generous
priestess Eumachia; but the characters most commonly asso-
ciated with the city are those of fiction. Here, in a greater
degree than in most places, the work of reconstruction involves
the handling of countless bits of evidence, which, when viewed
by themselves, often seem too minute to be of importance; the
blending of these into a complete and faithful picture is a task
of infinite painstaking, the difficulty of which will best be appre-
ciated by one who has worked in this field.
It was at first proposed to place at the end of the book a
series of bibliographical notes on the different chapters, giving
references to the more important treatises and articles dealing
with the matters presented. But on fuller consideration it
seemed unnecessary thus to add to the bulk of the volume;
those who are interested in the study of a particular building
or aspect of Pompeian culture will naturally turn to the Pom-
peianarum antiquitatum historia, the reports in the Notizie degli
Scavi, the reports and articles by Professor Mau in the Roman
Mittheilungen of the German Archaeological Institute, the
Overbeck-Mau Pompeji, the Studies by Mau and by Nissen,
the commemorative volume issued in 1879 under the title
Pompei e la regions sotterrata dal Vesuvio, the catalogues of
the paintings by Helbig and Sogliano, together with Mau’s
Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji, H. von
Rohden’s Terracotten von Pompeji, and the older illustrated
works, as well as the beautiful volume, Pompeji vor der Zer-
stoerung, published in 1897 by Weichardt.
The titles of more than five hundred books and pamphlets
relating to Pompeii are given in Furchheim’s Bibliografia di
Pompei (second edition, Naples, 1891). To this list should be
added an elaborate work on the temple of Isis, Aedis Isidis
Pompeiana, which is soon to appear. The copperplates for
the engravings were prepared at the expense of the old Acca-
demia ercolanese, but only the first section of the work was
published; the plates, fortunately, have been preserved without