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     POMPEII
     ITS LIFE AND ART




  [Illustration: PLATE I.--VIEW OF THE FORUM, LOOKING TOWARD VESUVIUS]




     POMPEII
     ITS LIFE AND ART

     BY
     AUGUST MAU

     GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE IN ROME

     Translated into English
     BY FRANCIS W. KELSEY
     UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

     _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL
     DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS_

     NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED

     New York
     THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
     LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
     1902

     _All rights reserved_




     COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1902,
     BY FRANCIS W. KELSEY.

     First Edition, October, 1899.
     New Revised Edition, with additions, November, 1902.

     Norwood Press
     J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
     Norwood Mass. U.S.A.




PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION


For twenty-five years Professor Mau has devoted himself to the study
of Pompeii, spending his summers among the ruins and his winters in
Rome, working up the new material. He holds a unique place among the
scholars who have given attention to Pompeian antiquities, and his
contributions to the literature of the subject have been numerous in
both German and Italian. The present volume, however, is not a
translation of one previously issued, but a new work first published
in English, the liberality of the publishers having made it possible
to secure assistance for the preparation of certain restorations and
other drawings which Professor Mau desired to have made as
illustrating his interpretation of the ruins.

In one respect there is an essential difference between the remains of
Pompeii and those of the large and famous cities of antiquity, as Rome
or Athens, which have associated with them the familiar names of
historical characters. Mars' Hill is clothed with human interest, if
for no other reason, because of its relation to the work of the
Apostle Paul; while the Roman Forum and the Palatine, barren as they
seem to-day, teem with life as there rise before the mind's eye the
scenes presented in the pages of classical writers. But the Campanian
city played an unimportant part in contemporary history; the name of
not a single great Pompeian is recorded. The ruins, deprived of the
interest arising from historical associations, must be interpreted
with little help from literary sources