One day, I plan to put together a walking tour of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But, to be perfectly honest, the sheer size and complexity of the sites is overwhelming. There is simply too much to be looked at, and too much that could be overlooked by squeezing the immense sites of the two Roman cities buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 into a single article.
The walking tour of the House of the Faun looks at one house--the largest and most expensive house--in Pompeii. My primary source of information is Mary Beard's fabulous 2008 book The Fires of Vesuvius, to whom I am very grateful. Looking at Pompeii and Herculaneum in little pieces lets us get a better glimpse of what living in Roman Italy was like. I hope you think so too!
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