The Oxford Handbook of Pompeii and Its Environs

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, and arguably where the modern discipline of archaeology began. Excavations here began over 250 years ago, and discoveries are still being made, both as the result of excavation and because of the ongoing reassessment of previously discovered material. The Oxford Handbook to Pompeii and its Environs presents an up-to-date assessment of our current state of knowledge, not just about the city of Pompeii but including its hinterland and the neighbouring archaeological sites of Herculaneum, Stabiae, Boscoreale and others. This Handbook is at once historiographical and cutting-edge, covering how scholarship has evolved over the long history of excavation and the current developments in fieldwork and scholarship.

Joanne Berry is Professor of Ancient History at Swansea University. She has published widely on Roman houses, Pompeii and Herculaneum, including the co-edited volume 'A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity' (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is the author of the best-selling The Complete Pompeii (Thames and Hudson, 2007, 2013, new edition forthcoming). In addition to her research on the ancient world, she publishes on various aspects of learning, teaching, and student experience in universities and has been awarded Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy on account of her leadership activities in this field.

Rebecca Benefiel (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of Classics at Washington & Lee University. She co-edited Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit: The Epigraphic Cultures of Greece, Rome, and Beyond (Brill, 2023) and Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Roman World (Brill 2016), and has published numerous articles concerning epigraphy, Pompeii, and Roman social history. She has been President of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Visiting Professor at Sapienza University in Rome, invited research scholar at Universität Heidelberg, and honored with the Commonwealth of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. She is Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.